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Protecting Leatherbacks Across the Globe

How two U.S. agencies collaborate together and with other countries that host leatherback nesting beaches.
June 14, 2023 - Podcast ,
Pacific Islands
National
International
Leatherback turtle in the Kei Islands Leatherback turtle in the Kei Islands. Credit: Scubazoo/Jason Isley

Species and Population Specific Gene Expression in Blood Transcriptomes of Marine Turtles

We generated high quality blood transcriptome assemblies for hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), loggerhead (Caretta caretta), green (Chelonia mydas), and leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) turtles.
May 13, 2021 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Pacific Islands
Southeast
West Coast
National

Species in the Spotlight: Priority Actions 2021-2025, Pacific Leatherback Turtle

The Species in the Spotlight initiative is a concerted agency-wide effort to spotlight and save marine species most at-risk of extinction in the near future. This plan focuses on priority actions needed in 2021-2025 for the Pacific leatherback turtle.
April 21, 2021 - Strategic Plans ,
West Coast
National

A Management Strategy Evaluation of a Swordfish Fishery

We created a management strategy evaluation to compare static and dynamic closures in a simulated fishery, aimed at reducing bycatch of leatherback turtles.
March 19, 2021 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Long-Term Coastal Surveys Reveal Marine Success Stories and Tough Challenges

Our data show harbor porpoise comeback and last chance for endangered turtles. Read more in this leadership message from Science and Research Director for the Southwest Fisheries Science Center Kristen Koch.
February 01, 2021 - Leadership Message ,
West Coast
A NOAA aerial survey crew gathers in front of a NOAA Twin Otter aircraft during a stop in Astoria, Oregon. A NOAA aerial survey crew gathers in front of a NOAA Twin Otter aircraft during a stop in Astoria, Oregon in 2014. From left: Lt. Michael Sandor Silagi, Office of Marine and Aviation Operations; Joel Schumacher, Scott Benson, and Tomoharu Eguchi, Southwest Fisheries Science Center; Camryn Allen, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; Dan Prosperi, Southwest Fisheries Science Center; and Lt. Shanae Coker, Office of Marine and Aviation Operations.

Assessing the Population-Level Impacts of North Pacific Loggerhead and Western Pacific Leatherback Turtle Interactions

This TM is intended to be read as part II of NOAA TM NMFS-PIFSC-95 and is an update to the methods to address partial observer coverage in the deep-set longline fisheries, as well as a presentation of new results. The two TMs should be read together.
May 28, 2020 - Technical Memo ,
Pacific Islands

Leatherback Turtles: Understanding the Pacific Population

Watch this video to see how NOAA scientists are studying the Pacific leatherback sea turtle, a NOAA Fisheries Species in the Spotlight.
June 12, 2018 - Video ,
West Coast
National
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Species in the Spotlight: Priority Actions 2016-2020, Pacific Leatherback Turtle

In 2015, NOAA Fisheries announced a new program to focus and redouble our efforts to protect eight species that are currently among the most at risk of extinction in the near future. This 5-year action plan focuses on priority actions for the Pacific leatherback turtle.
January 01, 2016 - Strategic Plans ,
West Coast