Fishery gear interactions from stranded bottlenose dolphins, Florida manatees and sea turtles in Florida, U.S.A

•Florida fishery gear interactions were reviewed for three megafauna from 1997 to 2009.•Overall gear interactions were 75.3% hook/line, 18.2% trap pot and 4.8% fishing net.•Gear cases increased for manatees, dolphins, loggerheads and green sea turtles.•Dolphin, manatee and sea turtle hook/line gear...

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Published in:Marine pollution bulletin 2014-04, Vol.81 (1), p.103-115
Main Authors: Adimey, Nicole M., Hudak, Christine A., Powell, Jessica R., Bassos-Hull, Kim, Foley, Allen, Farmer, Nicholas A., White, Linda, Minch, Karrie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal and plant ecology
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Animals
Applied ecology
Biological and medical sciences
Bottle-Nosed Dolphin
Caretta caretta
Chelonia mydas
Conservation of Natural Resources
Dermochelys coriacea
Dolphins
Ecotoxicology, biological effects of pollution
Entanglement
Environmental Monitoring
Eretmochelys imbricata
Exploitation and management of natural biological resources (hunting, fishing and exploited populations survey, etc.)
Female
Fisheries
Fishery gear
Florida
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gastrointestinal Contents
Ingestion
Lepidochelys
Lepidochelys olivacea
Male
Mammalia
Manatees
Marine and brackish environment
Sea turtles
Sea water ecosystems
Synecology
Time Factors
Trichechus manatus
Trichechus manatus latirostris
Tursiops truncatus
Turtles
Vertebrates: general zoology, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, cytogenetics, geographical distribution
Water Pollutants
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Summary:•Florida fishery gear interactions were reviewed for three megafauna from 1997 to 2009.•Overall gear interactions were 75.3% hook/line, 18.2% trap pot and 4.8% fishing net.•Gear cases increased for manatees, dolphins, loggerheads and green sea turtles.•Dolphin, manatee and sea turtle hook/line gear interactions were stable over time.•No significant trends in trap pot gear interactions strandings relative to total strandings were observed. Documenting the extent of fishery gear interactions is critical to wildlife conservation efforts, especially for reducing entanglements and ingestion. This study summarizes fishery gear interactions involving common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus truncatus), Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) and sea turtles: loggerhead (Caretta caretta), green turtle (Chelonia mydas), leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii), and olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) stranding in Florida waters during 1997–2009. Fishery gear interactions for all species combined were 75.3% hook and line, 18.2% trap pot gear, 4.8% fishing nets, and 1.7% in multiple gears. Total reported fishery gear cases increased over time for dolphins (p
ISSN:0025-326X
1879-3363
DOI:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.02.008