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POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Turtle sightings in the Azores tuna fishery from 2000 on: during navigation or search mode.
Citable as data publication
Machete, M.; Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), Portugal; Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores (DOP/UAC), Portugal; (2016): POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Turtle sightings in the Azores tuna fishery from 2000 on: during navigation or search mode. https://doi.org/10.14284/13

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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Description
Sightings of turtles were recorded daily, at 6 different fixed periods (snap shots), when the boat was in navigation or search mode. more

For more detailed information on the dataset, including abundances estimates, please contact data owner (miguel@uac.pt)

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Tuna fisheries, ANE, Azores, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Cryptodira

Geographical coverage
ANE, Azores [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -38,65; MinLat: 27,55 - MaxLong: -12,93; MaxLat: 40,6 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
1998 - 2013

Taxonomic coverage
Cryptodira [WoRMS]

Parameter
Animal sightings

Contributors
University of the Azores; Department of Oceanography and Fisheries (DOP), moredata creator
Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), moredata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
POPA: Azores Fisheries Observation Programme: POPA cetacean, seabird, and sea turtle sightings in the Azores area, more
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Gridded abundance map of the loggerhead sea turtle Caretta Caretta around the Azores, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-01-19
Information last updated: 2020-04-02
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