Table 1. (continued) 



Country 



Species 



Catch 

 1980-1982 



Type of fishing activity 



Netherlands 

 Antilles 



Nicaragua 



Surinam 



Turks & 

 Caicos 



U.S.A. 



Venezuela 



Cm 



Lo 



Ei 



Cc, Lk 



Lo 



(1980) 

 53,144 lbs 

 (1982) 

 710 lbs 



Significant 

 numbers 



Longlining 



Shrimp trawls, nets 

 Shrimp trawls, nets 



Identifies need to 

 reduce incidental 

 catch 



Taken iricidentally 

 during lobster season 



Shrimp trawls 



Boat collision, gill 

 nets, powerplant sea- 

 water intake, trawling, 

 hook & line fishing, 

 channel dredging 



Trawlers in east 

 Venezuela 



Key: Cm = Chelonia my das , Cc = Caretta caretta, Ei = 

 Eretmochelys imbricata . Lk = Lepidochelys kemgi, Lo = 

 Lepidochelys olivacea . Dc = Dermochelys coriacea 



Source: Bacon et al. (1984, Vol. 3) 



(a) The first number is captures, the second is mortality. 



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