{"id":527186,"date":"2010-04-14T09:38:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T13:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/millions-of-endangered-sea-turtles-killed-by-fisheries\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T09:38:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T13:38:39","slug":"millions-of-endangered-sea-turtles-killed-by-fisheries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527186","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Endangered Sea Turtles Killed by Fisheries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tarikb\/49089662\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/04\/sea-turtle.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sea turtle\" width=\"600\" height=\"378\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5642\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Sea turtles are getting killed in the millions from large-scale fisheries. See how this happens, potential solutions to the problem, and what you can do below.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A new report published in the journal <em>Conservation Letters<\/em> shows the results of the first global assessment of turtle &#8220;bycatch&#8221; by longline, gillnet and trawl fisheries. Basically, bycatch is when these fisheries accidentally catch animals they don&#8217;t intend to catch. Unfortunately, the news is not good for millions of sea turtles, with six out of seven marine turtle species listed as &#8220;Vulnerable&#8221;, &#8220;Endangered&#8221;, or &#8220;Critically Endangered&#8221; on the IUCN Red List largely as a result of this.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/millions-of-endangered-sea-turtles-killed-by-fisheries\/#more-5640\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea turtles are getting killed in the millions from large-scale fisheries. See how this happens, potential solutions to the problem, and what you can do below. A new report published in the journal Conservation Letters shows the results of the first global assessment of turtle &#8220;bycatch&#8221; by longline, gillnet and trawl fisheries. Basically, bycatch is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}