Taxa-Specific Resources

General Sea Turtle Links:

General Sea Turtle Links:  (regional links may be found on their respective pages)

• Marine Turtle Specialist Group Web site (IUCN)

• Bibliography at Univeristy of Florida

        (online bibliography of sea turtle literature)

• Conservation International - Programs - Sea Turtle Conservation 

• Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles

• ISTS - 27th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation

• Report on Reducing Sea Turtle Bycatch in Pelagic Longline Gear

• SEATURTLE.ORG

• Sea Turtles Restoration Project

• State of World's Sea Turtles (SWOT)

• Summary of International Projects by NOAA-NMFS: Sea Turtle Bycatch Reduction in Longlines

• Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs):

• FAO Equipment Fact Sheet – Turtle excluder device for trawl gear

• NOAA – NMFS information about turtle excluder devices

• WWF - Fact About Marine Turtles, Endangered Turtles, Sea Turtles

General Marine Mammal Links:

• ASCOBANS (Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas)

• Cetacean Bycatch Resource Center

• FAO Equipment Fact Sheet – Super shooter for reducing marine mammal bycatch

• International Marine Mammal Association

• IUCN Action Plan for Cetaceans

• IWC - International Whaling Commission

• Society for Marine Mammalogy

• Species At Risk

• The Tuna-Dolphin Issue (Southwest Fisheries Science Center)

• Using pingers to reduce cetacean bycatch in gillnets

General Seabird Links

• ACAP - Agreement on the :Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

• Alaska Seabird Incidental Take Reduction Program and Longline Gear Seabird Avoidance Measures

• Australian Antarctic Division - Seabird mortality in longline fisheries

• BA Albatross Conservation

• BirdBycatch Listserver

• BirdLife International – Seabird Bycatch Mitigation Measures

• BirdLife International – Global Seabird Programme

• Consortium 4 bycatch reduction
• Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
      (Reducing incidental effects of longline fishing in the Antartic)

• FAO International Plan of Action for Reducing Incidental Catch of Seabirds in Longline Fisheries
      (Includes link to National Plans of Action)

• Save the Albatross

• Sea Grant Washington publications
      (Several about reducing seabird bycatch in longline fisheries)

• Tuna fishing and Seabird bycatch mitigation devices