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Resolution on the urgent need to reduce trawling related mortality of Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Orissa Coast, India - March 2000

KA, Kachhapa (2000) Resolution on the urgent need to reduce trawling related mortality of Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Orissa Coast, India - March 2000. Kachhapa (3). pp. 9-10.

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Abstract

Considering that unregulated mechanised trawl and gill net fishing has resulted in large-scale annual mortality of olive ridley sea turtles with more 50,000 dead turtles counted along the Orissa coast in the past five years; and Considering that nearly 10,000 dead turtles have been counted during the 1999-2000 season despite repeated assurances by the state government that there would be adequate patrolling of coastal waters and enforcement of existing laws for the prevention of turtle mortality.

Item Type: Articles
Keywords: Turtle, Orissa, India, Trawling, Survival, Mechanised Dredges, Fishing Regulations, TED, Conservation, Coast Guard, Organisations
Subjects: Right to Resources
Depositing User: Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited: 25 May 2022 07:34
Last Modified: 25 May 2022 07:35
URI: http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/13154

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