The California Department of Fish and Wildlife just announced a marine warden discovered an endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle dead, drowned by old crab-fishing gear left off the Farralon Islands near San Francisco. Today, the agency s Dungeness Crab Fishing Gear Working Group is meeting to discuss how to respond. Geoff Shester, California campaign director and senior scientist for Oceana, said sea turtles and whales can get trapped in vertical ropes extending from a buoy on the water s surface to the trap on the ocean floor. .