Mr. Paolo Bray interviews Dr. Alessandro Lucchetti, PhD Researcher at CNR, expert in national and european legislation on fishing gears and project coordinator in Tartalife, a program to introduce turtle bycatch reduction measures in fishing.
TARTALIFE:
The conservation of Caretta caretta, a priority species included in App. II/IV of the Habitat Directive and protected in various international Conventions, has been representing a strategic issue for the whole Mediterranean basin, with professional fishing being the main threat for the survival of marine turtles: every year about 130000 turtles can be accidentally caught accidentally in the Mediterranean.
The project TartaLife, involving all 15 Italian regions overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, aims at reducing:
– bycatches caused by pelagic longline, bottom trawl and fixed nets by disseminating technical innovations of the fishing gears;
– post-capture mortality through trainings for fishermen and strengthening the marine turtles First Aid/Rescue Centres
Look at the pages of Tartalife:
http://www.tartalife.eu/en
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