Recovery Plan for Marine Turtles in Australia
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Pelagic Habitat
The pelagic habitat is often in international waters or those of another nation. With the exception of the flatback turtle, marine turtles spend some of their life in the open ocean before settling into a range of habitats as juveniles and later as adults. Leatherback turtles spend most of their life in open oceans or passing through the seas of the Australian continental shelf. Threats are marine debris; trawling; entanglement in crab and crayfish pot floatlines. Populations identified as being threatened in the pelagic habitat are; all populations, particularly leatherback turtles and eastern Australian loggerhead turtles.