This pelagic species is an extremely infrequent visitor to the Arabian Gulf and has no known nesting sites or specific foraging areas there (Pilcher et al. 2014, EAD 2016). A single individual was seen in Ras Al Khaimah in recent years, and there are two records from Abu Dhabi (one skeleton and one carapace). On the east coast, the only confirmed record is from 2017 from c.6 km off the coast from Fujairah city (dead specimen found on the surface, fishing hook found in his mouth during post mortem; museum specimen in AMS Fujairah; Farkas et al. 2017).Globally, the species comprises of seven biologically described regional management units (RMUs; Wallace et al. 2010), which define geographically explicit population segments by integrating information from nesting sites, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA studies, movements and habitat use by all life stages. RMUs are functionally equivalent to IUCN subpopulations, thus providing an appropriate demographic unit for Red List assessments. There are seven Leatherback subpopulations: Northwest Atlantic Ocean, Southeast Atlantic Ocean, Southwest Atlantic Ocean, Northeast Indian Ocean, Southwest Indian Ocean, East Pacific Ocean, and West Pacific Ocean.