During their decades-long lives, sea turtles must endure a ceaseless gauntlet of predators–beaked, toothed, clawed, and thumbed–and human-made hazards like coastal development and plastic trash posing as prey.
Unfortunately, even if they succeed in evading these threats, millions of sea turtles worldwide are unable to avoid falling victim to the most serious, acute threat they face today: fisheries bycatch.
The global race to feed the world’s growing appetite for seafood is causing significant declines not only in fish stocks, but also in accidentally caught species like sea turtles.
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