Tagging and Tracking Leatherback Turtles (VIDEO)

Stanford University

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Tagging and tracking leatherback sea turtles has produced new insights into the turtles' behavior in a part of the South Pacific Ocean long considered an oceanic desert. The new data will help researchers predict the turtles' movements in the ever-changing environment of the open ocean, with the goal of reducing the impact of fishing on the endangered leatherback population.

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Mark Shwartz, Stanford News Service, and George Shillinger, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University

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