Description
Original provider:
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center
Dataset credits:
Data provider
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center
Originating data center
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)
Project partner
A multi-national partnership including Fundacion Zoologica de El Salvador, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia de la Universidad de El Salvador, Proyecto Carey! del Pacifico Oriental, NOAA - Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Ocean Conservancy, Comite de Desarrollo Empresarial y Medio Ambiente de Puerto Parada, Centro Tecnologico par Estudios del Mar No. 14, Pro Peninsula, Grupo Tortuguero and Equilibrio Azul.
Project sponsor or sponsor description
Our Eastern Pacific Hawksbill team would like to thank the following individuals and organizations (logos) for their support of this project:
- Wally y Sheila Nichols
- Carlos Enrique Araujo
- Enrique Melendez
- Leonor Sardihna
- Michael Carey
- Dane Whittington
Abstract:
Make a list of the world's most endangered sea turtle populations. Is the eastern Pacific hawksbill on it? If not, it's no surprise. Essentially nothing is known of the biology, distribution, abundance, or conservation needs of this enigmatic population. Until recently, virtually nothing had been done to study what remains of these animals in the eastern Pacific, hunted nearly into extinction long before the start of the modern sea turtle conservation movement.
In 2005, the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group recognized the lack of information about this population, listing it among global-scale critical research and conservation needs. According to communities and conservation projects in the region, some hawksbills do still remain in the eastern Pacific, but until recently, many thought it was too late to save hawksbills in this region. However, during the First Workshop on Eastern Pacific Hawksbills held in El Salvador in July 2008, it became clear that there were still a few nesting strongholds for the species in the region and that it was not too late to recover hawksbill turtles in the Eastern Pacific.
Boding well for the turtles, more hawksbills are being reported now than were reported several decades ago a result of the increased protection afforded to sea turtles in the early 1990s, many local fishers believe. As explained by Juan de la Cruz, a former turtle hunter from a small fishing village on the shores of the Gulf of California, Mexico, thirty years ago it was almost impossible to see a hawksbill, because hunting of the species was rampant. Once the laws were established, the market for penca [tortoise shell] died, and seeking hawksbills became too risky. If people wanted to eat turtle meat, they trapped other turtles that were easier to capture.
In spite of these recent discoveries and increased in-water hawksbill sightings, Jose Ovidio Perdomo, a life-long sea turtle egg collector turned conservationist, still has concerns about nesting hawksbills in the Biosphere Reserve of the Bahia de Jiquilisco, El Salvador, Although we are receiving hawksbills, their numbers have decreased significantly during my 40 years in the 'tortugueada' (search for sea turtle eggs), owed primarily to the extraction of eggs for consumption, beach development, and most recently, the use of explosives (as a fishing technique). I fear that if we don't change our path, my grandchildren will not know the hawksbills.
Many questions remain, but the mysteries of this forgotten population are beginning to reveal themselves. By shedding light on the biology and conservation status of the eastern Pacific hawksbill, we will provide critical information for local and regional conservation management plans that will ultimately determine the feasibility of the turtles recovery in this region of the world, hopefully transforming their vanishing act into a comeback.ââ,¬Â¨Ã¢â,¬Â¨
For video and media coverage of this multi-national collaborative effort go to:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kX-5-VzPNUU ââ,¬Â¨
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iVVM5Zg0Nqo ââ,¬Â¨
http://www.laprensagrafica.com/nacion/1104272.asp ââ,¬Â¨Ã¢â,¬Â¨
http://tinyurl.com/6comtd> http://tinyurl.com/6comtd> http://tinyurl.com/6comtd
http://www.numerounoonline.com/nota.php?id=3226
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlfnXH-qa1g
Supplemental information:
Visit STAT's project page for additional information.
This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 50 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Seminoff J. 2022. Iniciativa Carey del Pacifico Oriental - ICAPO - Eastern Pacific Hawksbill Initiative. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1336) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=295).
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 50188f1f-0f68-423a-a59e-6e14399cfd4c. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1336 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1336/xml UTF-8 XML |
STAT Project Page | http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=295 UTF-8 Original web site |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Oceans
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-3.507, -126.575], North East [47.679, -50.014] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Species | Eretmochelys imbricata (Hawksbill Sea Turtle) |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 2008-06-24 / 2020-10-22 |
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Project Data
No Description available
Title | Iniciativa Carey del Pacifico Oriental - ICAPO - Eastern Pacific Hawksbill Initiative (aggregated per 1-degree cell) |
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Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
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Collection Data
Collection Name | zd_1336_1deg |
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Collection Identifier | zd_1336_1deg |
Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
Purpose | Not available |
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Alternative Identifiers | 50188f1f-0f68-423a-a59e-6e14399cfd4c |
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1336_1deg |