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Rare occurrence of leatherback turtle at Visakhapatnam

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Title Rare occurrence of leatherback turtle at Visakhapatnam
 
Creator Prabhakar, R V D
Behera, Pralaya Ranjan
Moshe, Ch.
Nagaraju, P
Ghosh, Shubhadeep
Jishnudev, M A
 
Subject Rare occurrence
Marine Turtle
 
Description Nesting of olive ridley turtles have been reported
frequently along Visakhapatnam coast but there are
few reports of leatherback turtle along this coast.
On 10th September, 2016, a leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea accidentally entangled in a
monofilament gill net operated by a country craft
at 30 to 40 m depths at Mutyalammapalem about
50 km south of Visakhapatnam, was brought to the
landing centre by fishermen. Later it was released
back into the sea.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2016
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11627/1/MFIS%20229-11.pdf
Prabhakar, R V D and Behera, Pralaya Ranjan and Moshe, Ch. and Nagaraju, P and Ghosh, Shubhadeep and Jishnudev, M A (2016) Rare occurrence of leatherback turtle at Visakhapatnam. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (229). pp. 22-23. ISSN 0254-380 X