Dec 20, 2021 | NEWS
The fishermen that our project partner DEKAMER provides training and surveys about sea turtles, protects sea turtles. We would like to thank the fisherman Mr. Hasan for saving the Caretta caretta from the trawl net of the Molakadir boat in Çanakkale and release back...
Dec 3, 2021 | NEWS
One of the project activities is to investigate if the current practices (for trawlers) are really the best ones to reduce sea turtle’s post-release mortality. To this aim, the staff from UNIPI has just started a survivorship study: turtles accidentally captured...
Nov 21, 2021 | NEWS
Our project partner DEKAMER continued training fishermen about sea turtles and giving them rescue kits. DEKAMER met with the fishermen in Aydın’s Kuşadası district, and also give them materials to be used for first aid to turtles in possible cases.
Nov 14, 2021 | NEWS
The testing of Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) has started in Puglia. Last week a TED was mounted on the trawl net of the boat “Nuova Giovanna” in Bisceglie (Puglia), thanks to the precious collaboration of the fishermen. This is the first boat where the...
Nov 10, 2021 | NEWS
The installation of special LED lights in fishing nets, a practice which will help sea turtles to detect fishing nets and avoid them, reducing the bycatch of sea turtles in fishing nets, which is a major problem for them. This activity, which is an innovation brought...
Nov 8, 2021 | NEWS
Today the staff of the Life MedTurtles project received a report from the mobile phones distributed by HAS to the fishermen about some sea turtles (Caretta caretta and Chelonia mydas), which were stuck in the nets in the Patoku lagoon. Shortly after receiving the...
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