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ries (dolphins in tuna seines and in gillnets, Kemp's ridley sea turtles in trawls, sea birds in longlines and gillnets)," says Martin Hall of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. "In those cases, the remaining challenge is the communication and implementation of the solutions to all fleets. In other cases, such as the Pacific leatherbacks, the solution has yet to be found, and only an inspired and intense research effort may produce one before we run out of time."

"The humbling thing about humans having this effect is that leatherbacks have been on earth 25 times longer than humans but we're the cause of their decline. We've been here about 4 million years, they've been here 100 million," says Crowder. "Measured in evolutionary time leatherbacks are one of most successful organisms in the sea, but unless things change fast, they are not likely to be here much longer. They will disappear if things don't change - the only disagreement is exactly how long it will take."

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Contact: Jessica Brown
jbrown@seaweb.org
202-497-8375
SeaWeb
17-Feb-2003

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