PRESS RELEASE Harkers Island, North Carolina March 6, 2014

NORTH CAROLINA FISHERIES ASSOCIATION and CARTERET COUNTY FISHERMAN’S ASSOCIATION

The commercial fishery has been, and continues to be, highly regulated regarding conservation efforts directed at sea turtles. However, there currently exists no comparable management, regulation, or oversight for the recreational hook and line fishery or boat strikes, both activities of which are recognized sources of illegal takes of sea turtles. With full knowledge of continued unlawful incidental takes of endangered and/or threatened sea turtles by recreational hook and line fishermen and takes from boat strikes, the National Marine Fisheries Service, US Wildlife Service, and the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries continue to allow, authorize, approve, and in some cases even license these activities which result in significant numbers of prohibited takes in violation of the Endangered Species Act. Specifically, with knowledge of significant numbers of prohibited turtle takes in the recreational hook and line fishery and other resource uses, the National Marine Fisheries Service, US Wildlife Service, and the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries have focused conservation management and regulation almost solely on commercial fisheries, arbitrarily and capriciously assigning the full burden of species recovery to commercial fishermen. The North Carolina Fisheries Association and the Carteret County Fisherman’s Association believe that the National Marine Fisheries Service, US Wildlife Service, and the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries are, and continue to violate the Endangered Species Act by failing to respond to known threats to sea turtle recovery as well as authorization of such activities known to result in illegal takes. It is our belief that an accurate, in-water stock assessment will show these turtle species are at, or near recovery and strict regulation is unwarranted in both the commercial or recreational user sectors. Until that is accomplished, an equal allocation of conservation efforts and management across all user groups and activities which result in incidental takes is necessary and required under the Endangered Species Act to conserve and allow recovery of sea turtles.

tract and the turtle stands a reasonable chance of surviving. If an angler catches a sea turtle from a pier, he should land the turtle on the beach, Harms said. Anglers should not try to raise the turtle to the pier. “Putting the full weight of the turtle on the hook and line will embed it very firmly and cause more damage than pulling it in laterally,” Harms said. For more information on sea turtle release protocols from the National M arine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center, go to: http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/sf/pdfs/2008%20Updated%20Sea%20Turtle%20Release%20Protocols.pdf (http://ser o.nmfs.noaa.gov/sf/pdfs/2008%20Updated%20Sea%20Tur tle%20Release%20Pr otocols.pdf)

N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries • 3441 Arendell Street • M orehead City, NC 28557 • 252-726-7021 or 800-682-2632

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