Peru’s Ocean Guardians: How Fishers Are Saving Sea Turtles with New Bycatch Training
Fishers and sea turtles are unexpectedly teaming off the coast of southern Peru, where the blue waves of the Pacific meet the rocky shoreline. A sad result of industrial fishing, the mahi-mahi fishery in the area has inadvertently caught endangered turtles in its hooks for decades. Now, though, a government-led project is transforming fishermen into ...