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Save Sea Turtles from Longline Fishing

  • by: KELLY ROGERS
  • recipient: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)

The Hawaii longline swordfish fishery is a constant danger to endangered Pacific leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles. Sea turtles get hooked or entangled in longlines, which contain thousands of hooks stretched over ten to forty miles, causing them to either be critically injured or drown.

http://action.seaturtles.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=11043

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