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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14110
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artisanal fisheries; bycatch; Cabo Verde; Canary Current; industrial fisheries; longline; management; trawler
Fisheries bycatch poses a serious threat to sea turtle populations worldwide, especially due to their vulnerability to various fishing gear. In the intensely fished region of the Canary Current, the Cabo Verde loggerhead turtle population lacks a comprehensive assessment integrating bycatch and population management information. By analyzing subpopulation data from Boa Vista Island in Cabo Verde, the study evaluated population viability, estimated regional bycatch rates, and examined nesting trends in relation to bycatch estimates, hatchery conservation measures, and environmental variability. The results indicated that current bycatch mortality rates would lead to the near extinction of the Boa Vista subpopulation, highlighting the urgent need for bycatch reduction efforts and diversified conservation management strategies.
Fisheries bycatch is a critical threat to sea turtle populations worldwide, particularly because turtles are vulnerable to multiple gear types. The Canary Current is an intensely fished region, yet there has been no demographic assessment integrating bycatch and population management information of the globally significant Cabo Verde loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) population. Using Boa Vista island (Eastern Cabo Verde) subpopulation data from capture-recapture and nest monitoring (2013-2019), we evaluated population viability and estimated regional bycatch rates (2016-2020) in longline, trawl, purse-seine, and artisanal fisheries. We further evaluated current nesting trends in the context of bycatch estimates, existing hatchery conservation measures, and environmental (net primary productivity) variability in turtle foraging grounds. We projected that current bycatch mortality rates would lead to the near extinction of the Boa Vista subpopulation. Bycatch reduction in longline fisheries and all fisheries combined would increase finite population growth rate by 1.76% and 1.95%, respectively. Hatchery conservation increased hatchling production and reduced extinction risk, but alone it could not achieve population growth. Short-term increases in nest counts (2013-2021), putatively driven by temporary increases in net primary productivity, may be masking ongoing long-term population declines. When fecundity was linked to net primary productivity, our hindcast models simultaneously predicted these opposing long-term and short-term trends. Consequently, our results showed conservation management must diversify from land-based management. The masking effect we found has broad-reaching implications for monitoring sea turtle populations worldwide, demonstrating the importance of directly estimating adult survival and that nest counts might inadequately reflect underlying population trends.
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