Declining catch rates in Caribbean Nicaragua green turtle fishery may be result of ov

A 20-year assessment of Nicaragua’s legal, artisanal green sea turtle fishery has uncovered a stark reality: greatly reduced overall catch rates of turtles in what may have become an unsustainable take, according to conservation scientists. Growing up to 400 pounds in weight, the green turtle is the second largest sea turtle species next to the leatherback turtle. In addition to the threat from overfishing, the green turtle is at risk from bycatch in various fisheries, poaching of eggs at nesting beaches, habitat deterioration and loss due to coastal development and climate change effects, and pollution.



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America can do it's best to protect what animals it can (which isn't much) but the rest of the world could care less. People are like a virus, we slowly kill off the ecosystem in which we need to survive. We take without care or concern for the repercussions it will leave behind. Only after something is gone do most people ask what happened to what use to be. These turtles like many other animal species will eventually adapt to our bad behaviors or they will go extinct.