Quantifying the effects of fisheries on threatened species: the impact of pelagic longlines on loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles

This summary study assessed data from pelagic longline fisheries and sea turtle bycatch across 40 nations in the year 2000. Analyses showed that ore than 200,000 loggerheads and 50,000 leatherbacks were likely taken as pelagic longline bycatch in 2000, which is not a sustainable level.