2.6. Seasonality of turtle harvest
Yearly, monthly and daily patterns of interpolated totals of green and hawksbill turtles landed at South Caicos were assessed statistically against the null hypotheses that average turtle catch is approximately the same on every day of the week in each month and year. Research year, month and day of week were included as fixed factors with their two-way interactions in three-way crossed Permutational Analyses of Variance (PERMANOVAs) using PERMANOVAþ in PRIMER v6 . Models were carried out on Euclidean distance with 9999 permutations of residuals under a reduced model and Type III (partial) sums of squares.