Impacts of the traditional baited basket fishing trap "gargoor" on green sea turtles Chelonia mydas (Testudines: Cheloniidae) Linnaeus, 1758 from two case reports in the United Arab Emirates.

@article{Yaghmour2018ImpactsOT,
  title={Impacts of the traditional baited basket fishing trap "gargoor" on green sea turtles Chelonia mydas (Testudines: Cheloniidae) Linnaeus, 1758 from two case reports in the United Arab Emirates.},
  author={Fadi Yaghmour and Marwa Al Bousi and Brendan M. Whittington-Jones and John Pereira and Soledad Garc{\'i}a-Nu{\~n}ez and Jane A. Budd},
  journal={Marine pollution bulletin},
  year={2018},
  volume={135},
  pages={
          521-524
        }
}
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