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Table 1 Count of the fouling status of satellite tags on marine turtles assigned to foraging areas including the Bahamas, Caribbean, southern Gulf of Mexico (SGOM), and northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOM)

From: Drivers of realized satellite tracking duration in marine turtles

 

Not Fouled

Fouled

Total

NGOM

34

17

51

SGOM

3

11

14

Caribbean*

5

2

7

Bahamas*

1

0

1

Total

43

30

 

Grand Total

  

73

  1. Data for NGOM and SGOM were pooled into one category, ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for analysis (Fig. 4). Asterisk (*) denotes tags excluded from fouling analyses because of small sample size