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Number 119 January 2008

Editors: Lisa M. Campbell Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University 135 Duke Marine Lab Road Beaufort, NC 28516 USA Matthew H. Godfrey NC Sea Turtle Project NC Wildlife Resources Commission 1507 Ann St. Beaufort, NC 28516 USA

Founding Editor: Nicholas Mrosovsky University of Toronto, Canada

Editorial Board: Brendan J. Godley & Annette C. Broderick (Editors Emeriti) George Balazs Angela Formia Colin Limpus Nicholas J. Pilcher Manjula Tiwari Kartik Shanker Jeanette Wyneken

Articles

Directional Locomotion in a Turtle Barnacle, Chelonibia testudinaria, on Green Turtles, Chelonia mydas - Julia E. Moriarty, Jerome A. Sachs & Kirstin Jones

Sea Turtle Bycatch by Cerco-fixo in Cananéia Lagoon Estuarine Complex, Sôa Paulo, Brazil - Shany Mayumi Nagaoka, Ana Cristina Vigliar Bondioli, & Emygdio Leite de Araujo Monteiro-Filho,

Marine Turtle Nest Translocation Due to Hurricane Threat on Réunion Island - Stéphane Ciccione, Marie Lauret-Stepler, Jérôme Bourjea

Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) in Marine Waters off Ecuador: Occurrence, Distribution and Bycatch from the Eastern Pacific Ocean - Juan José Alava

Notes

A Stranded Leatherback Sea Turtle in the Northeastern Mediterranean, Hatay, Turkey - Bektaş Sönmez, Dennis Sammy, Şükran Yalçın-Özdilek, Özgür Ahmet Gönenler, Ufuk Açıkbaş, Yaşar Ergün & Yakup Kaska

Preliminary Study on Sea Turtles in Bintan Island, Riau Archipelago, Indonesia - C.K. Winata, A. Nadina & M. Rofik

Green Turtle Tag Recovery Further Links Northern Brazil to the Caribbean Region - Eduardo H.S.M. Lima, Maria Thereza D. Melo, Magnus M. Severo & Paulo C.R. Barata

Book Reviews

Meeting Report

IUCN-MTSG Quarterly Report - Brian J. Hutchinson, Nicolas J. Pilcher , & Roderic B. Mast

Second Turkish National Sea Turtle Symposium (25-27 October 2007) - Yakup Kaska

NEWS AND LEGAL BRIEFS

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