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
Contact:
Machete, Miguel ;
Catarino, Diana Availability:
![]() 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) Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output Scope Themes: Biology > Reptiles Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Tuna fisheries, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, 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
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
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2015-02-13
Metadatarecord created: 2015-01-19
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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