https://doi.org/10.82144/3836a080 https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1118 https://www.gbif.org/dataset/fe769795-5c11-4e20-8996-10124078fadd https://obis.org/dataset/b606c4a0-d693-4a03-9086-0be6e501c0fc Eduardo Videira Associação para Investigação Costeira e Marinha Primary contact evideiraaicm@gmail.com Jérôme Bourjea IFREMER Secondary contact jerome.bourjea@ifremer.fr http://www.ifremer.fr/lareunion Mayeul Dalleau CEDTM Secondary contact mayeuldalleau@cedtm-asso.org Marcos Pereira Centro Terra Viva - Estudos e Advocacia Ambiental Secondary contact marcospereira@gmx.net OBIS-SEAMAP Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

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seamap-contact@duke.edu https://seamap.env.duke.edu distributor Eduardo Videira Associação para Investigação Costeira e Marinha Primary contact evideiraaicm@gmail.com owner Jérôme Bourjea IFREMER Secondary contact jerome.bourjea@ifremer.fr http://www.ifremer.fr/lareunion originator Mayeul Dalleau CEDTM Secondary contact mayeuldalleau@cedtm-asso.org originator Marcos Pereira Centro Terra Viva - Estudos e Advocacia Ambiental Secondary contact marcospereira@gmx.net originator 2025-07-31 eng Original provider: Associação para Investigação Costeira e Marinha Dataset credits: Associação para Investigação Costeira e Marinha Institut Français pour L'Exploitation de la Mer Kélonia Abstract: As part of Component 5 of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (SWIOFP; http://www.swiofp.net), three Loggerhead turtles (named “Lurdes”, “Esperança” and “Mingas”) nesting at the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve (POPMR) were satellite tagged (Telonics Argos Marine Transmitters TAM-2639).The loggerhead turtles had contrasting migratory routes: Lurdes immediately initiated a near-shore northbound migration, travelling approximately 634 km (monitored distance) during the 15-day monitoring period and probably the turtle was poached, as the last signal from the tag was sent from 2 km inland next to a hut, closed to Baía dos Cocos in Inhambane Province, Mozambique. Mingas was monitored for 73 days and similarly traveled along the coast, all the way to Mozambique Island and across the Mozambique Channel to the NE coast of Madagascar, traversing 3,270 km (ca 2,025 km straight distance).Finally, Esperança was tracked for 2,608 km during 187 days. This turtle travelled along the coast approximately 250 km north (straight distance) of the nesting beach and reached, what is believed to be her feeding grounds on the Mozambique coast between Macaneta and Xai-Xai. This results shows that despite being protected nationally and internationally, poaching is still a serious threat to the conservation of marine turtles in Mozambique (and in the region), which warrants further efforts for their protection. Marine Biology Telemetry Tagged animal Marine Animal Survey Sea turtles Animal tagging Radio transmitters N/A This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1118 Oceans,South-Africa,Mozambique 32.73824 47.48036 -14.44388 -26.9272 2012-01-27 2012-08-05 Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). species Caretta caretta Loggerhead sea turtle The purpose of satellite tagging was to analyse loggerhead post-nesting migration, potential feeding grounds as well as population overlap in the Indian Ocean. notPlanned Eduardo Videira Associação para Investigação Costeira e Marinha Primary contact evideiraaicm@gmail.com NA NA NA Eduardo Videira owner Jérôme Bourjea originator Mayeul Dalleau originator Marcos Pereira originator NA zd_1118 2025-07-31T16:31:04-04:00 dataset Videira, E., M. Dalleau, J. Bourjea and M. Pereira. 2015. AICM satellite tracked loggerhead sea turtles from Mozambique 2012 under SWIOFP. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/3836a080. OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page UTF-8 Interactive map https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1118 FGDC Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1118/fgdc EML Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1118/eml OBIS-SEAMAP zd_1118 zd_1118 Pereira, M. A. M., Videira, E. J. S., Gonçalves, P. M. B. & Fernandes, R. S. 2014. Post-nesting migration of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) from Southern Mozambique. African Sea Turtle Newsletter: 1, 48-51.