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U.S. Makes Move to List the Loggerhead Turtle as Endangered
Source: LA Times By: Bettina Boxall
Federal agencies are proposing to increase protections for loggerhead turtles, the long-lived sea creatures known for their big heads and capacity to swim thousands of miles across the Pacific.
The National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a rule Wednesday [March 10,2010] that would list seven distinct loggerhead populations, including two in the Pacific, as endangered. Since loggerheads were listed as threatened in 1978 under the Endangered Species Act, they have continued to decline. Wildlife agencies say the primary cause is incidental capture in fishing nets and long lines. But the turtles also have lost beach nesting habitat.
Endangered status would trigger designation of critical habitat zones for the two populations found in the U.S., prompting protections that could affect future offshore oil drilling and other activities. But marine agencies concede that U.S. regulations alone will not save loggerheads, which live globally in the temperate and tropical zones of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans and Mediterranean Sea....
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Baby sharks nursed to health after violent birth
Source: 3News New Zealand By: Bob McNeil
The school shark population of the Hauraki Gulf increased by eight today, when staff from Kelly Tarlton's released a group of pups they've been raising by hand. Marine biologists were forced to step in, when the pups arrived prematurely during an attack on their mother by another shark.
They left like guppies being fished for in a pet shop. But the fish now have teeth, and they're headed for the Hauraki Gulf. The eight school shark pups were born through a gash in their mother's side, after she was bitten by a larger shark last year.
Andrew Christie, of Kelly Tarlton's, says the pups were very vulnerable when they first found them. “We pretty much provided an intensive care unit for premature sharks for a little while there. They doubled in weight and are ready to go,” he says...
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