Sachithanandam, Veeraragavan and Mageswaran, Thangaraj and Sridhar, Rengarajan and Arumugam, Thiruvenkadam and Ramesh, Ramachandran (2015) A Summary of sea turtle mortality along the Tamil Nadu coast of India and the need for turtle-friendly fisheries. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter (22). pp. 13-14. ISSN 0973-1695
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There are five species of sea turtles reported from Indian waters, the olive ridley, green, leatherback, loggerhead, and hawksbill (Kar and Bhaskar, 1982; Bhupathy & Saravanan, 2002). In the past two decades, reports from within both the Indian and international media have indicated an increase in sea turtle mortality along several coastal stretches of the east coast of India due to anthropogenic activities, including fishing, movement of shipping vessels, disposal of municipal waste and coastal armouring structures (Sachithanandam et al., 2015). India’s Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification, 2011, under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, declared all turtle nesting areas of the Indian coastline as Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) and regulated human activities within them. In Odisha, olive ridley turtles exhibit synchronous mass nesting, known as arribadas.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Tamil Nadu, Mortality, Nesting, Turtle, Fishing Communities, Marine Resources Conservation, Fishing Regulations, Surveys |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Varsha V icsf |
| Date Deposited: | 12 May 2022 04:20 |
| Last Modified: | 12 May 2022 04:20 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/14029 |
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