Greenland et al., 2002:

"The reporting of turtle mortality in ghost nets along the western Cape York Peninsula coast is known to be very incomplete. Extrapolation from counts from recently beachwashed ghost-nets and their entrapped turtles on the beaches of north-western Cape York Peninsula in early 2001 and 2002 suggest that several hundred marine turtles of at least four species are killed annually in ghost nets along the Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria coast (Limpus and Miller 2002). "

Figure 1. Two Olive Ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) drowned in a ghost net entangled around Hammond Rock, Torres Strait, February 2008.  Photo credit Torres Strait Regional Authority.

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Citation and/or URL

Greenland, J. A., Limpus, C. J., and Currie, K. J. 2002,  Queensland marine wildlife stranding and mortality database annual report 2001-2002 II. Marine Turtles. Queensland Environmental Protection Agency. 73pp.

Spatial Coverage

Queensland

Temporal Coverage

2001 and 2002 

Update Frequency

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