Table 4.

Mean (minimum, maximum) annual percentage of juvenile turtles recruiting to coastal waters across the US by age class (1996–2017)

Species	0.5 years	1.5 years	2.5 years	3.5 years
Kemp’s ridley	60.2 (22.1–98.8)	32.6 (0.4–76.8)	7.2 (0.0–27.3)	–
Green	38.5 (12.6–95.8)	32.1 (3.6–71.3)	19.2 (0.5–70.1)	10.2 (0.1–52.6)

Lower values with increasing age are generally expected because of time-dependent mortality, likewise, the model reflects earlier recruitment of Kemp’s ridley compared to green turtles that has been documented.^39,69 To compute bycatch rates and estimate total bycatch we summed turtle abundance across age classes.