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    MANAGEMENT UNITS: CHALLENGES TO PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING AND CONSERVATION OF MARINE TURTLES IN OCEANIC AREAS
    (2015) Sales, G.; Britto, M.; Fiedler, F.N.; Giffoni, B.; Domingo, A.; Leite, N.; Miller, Philip
    This document presents a discussion and some recommendations with regards to appropriate management units to promote the conservation of marine turtles in oceanic areas used by tuna longline fisheries under ICCAT. We comment on the utility of using Regional Management Units (RMUs) for marine turtles as proposed by Wallace et al. (2010). Per Wallace (2010 et al), RMUs refer to geographically explicit population segments, based on biogeographical data (e.g. nesting sites, genetics, telemetry) that can be applied to regionally appropriate management issues. RMUs are not intended to represent complete geographic distributions of species on global or regional scales, but rather distributions that are anchored to landmasses by known nesting site(s) and/or genetic stock origins and defined by biogeographical information. While RMUs are important to contribute to our understanding of key aspects of marine turtle populations, this analysis indicates that marine turtle RMUs do not cover all requirements to define management units to the ICCAT fisheries. Considering that the longline fishing are compose of different kind of fisheries, using distinct fishery strategies and operate in distinct at-sea regions, these fisheries interact with marine turtle mixed stocks in foraging and developmental areas. We recommend ICCAT adopt the “Fishery”as the principal concept to define Management Unit (rather than sea turtle RMUs) in order to understand and reduce marine turtle interactions in the ICCAT fisheries
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    Effectiveness and design of marine protected areas for migratory species of conservation concern: A case study of post-nesting hawksbill turtles in Brazil
    (Elsevier, 2021-06-21) Armando J.B., Santos; Bellini, C.; Santos, E.A.P.; Sales, G.; Ramos, R.; Vieira, D.H.G.; Marcovaldi, M. A.; Gillisf, Anthony; Wildermann, N.; Millsi, M.; Gandra, T.; Fuentes, M.M.P.B.
    Marine protected areas (MPAs) are among the most widely used strategy to protect marine ecosystems and are typically designed to protect specific habitats rather than a single and/or multiple species. To inform the con servation of species of conservation concern there is the need to assess whether existing and proposed MPA designs provide protection to these species. For this, information on species spatial distribution and exposure to threats is necessary. However, this information if often lacking, particularly for mobile migratory species, such as marine turtles. To highlight the importance of this information when designing MPAs and for assessments of their effectiveness, we identified high use areas of post-nesting hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in Brazil as a case study and assessed the effectiveness of Brazilian MPAs to protect important habitat for this group based on exposure to threats. Most (88%) of high use areas were found to be exposed to threats (78% to artisanal fishery and 76.7% to marine traffic), where 88.1% were not protected by MPAs, for which 86% are exposed to threats. This mismatch is driven by a lack of explicit conservation goals and targets for turtles in MPA management plans, limited spatial information on species' distribution and threats, and a mismatch in the scale of conservation initiatives. To inform future assessments and design of MPAs for species of conservation concern we suggest that managers: clearly state and make their goals and targets tangible, consider ecological scales instead of political boundaries, and use adaptative management as new information become available.