Sentence examples for turtle gear from inspiring English sources

Riot police in turtle gear followed.

Longline captains reported innovative uses of turtle dehooking gear, which two-thirds of interviewed captains had used to release other bycatch species in addition to turtles.

With the logger, regulators can avoid other restrictions on fishermen, like shutting down fishing areas or requiring turtle-saving gear that does not work well in all nets.

Sea turtles also gained new protection, such as mandating the use of turtle friendly fishing gear in the Atlantic.

Devices aiming at reducing sea turtle bycatch through gear modifications have largely been developed for large-scale commercial fisheries, i.e. longlines and trawls, but not for set nets.

Sarah Sidner, Chance's fellow CNN reporter in her turtle shell protective gear was actually dodging bullets when the network cut away so viewers could see U.S. newsrooms shaking in the East Coast quake and anchors exclaiming.

Lots of turtles, lots of gear, lots of bycatch.

They hit golf balls off the roof, play basketball together, dress Turtle up in hockey gear and sic a foaming-at-the-mouth Rottweiler at him.

In a new study published in the journal Ecosphere, I and a group of fellow researchers tried to get a better understanding of bycatch impacts on sea turtles by compiling all published records of bycatch and tallying rates of bycatch and mortality in different types of fishing gear for all turtle populations worldwide.

Now researchers have compiled a global picture of the impact that various types of fishing gear have on turtles.

According to the 2009 status review of loggerheads by the Fisheries Service, drowning from entanglement in longline and gillnet fishing gear is the turtles' primary threat in the North Pacific.