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Marine Turtle Newsletter-Online
Number 130 November 2011

MTN130 Cover
Stranded olive ridley sea turtle found on Boavista Island, Cape Verde Archipelago; see pages 25-26 (photo: D. Cejudo).

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Articles

mtn130p1.shtmlGuest Editorial: Did the BP-Deepwater Horizon-Macondo Oil Spill Change the Age Structure of the Kemp's Ridley Population? - Charles W. Caillouet, Jr.

mtn130p2.shtmlTracking Leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) Hatchlings at Sea Using Radio and Acoustic Tags - Geoffrey Gearheart, Adi Maturbongs, Peter H. Dutton, Janet Sprintall, Gerald L. Kooyman, Ricardo F. Tapilatu & Elizabeth Johnstone

mtn130p6.shtmlStatus of Marine Turtles in Cuthbert Bay, Middle Andaman Islands - Ema Fatima, Harry Andrews, Saw John & Kartik Shanker

mtn130p10.shtmlGreen Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Mortality in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador During the 2009 - 2010 Nesting Season - Macarena Parra, Sharon L. Deem & Eduardo Espinoza

mtn130p16.shtmlSouthernmost Records of Hawksbill Turtles Along the East Pacific Coast of South America - Javier Quiñones, Jorge Zeballos, Sixto Quispe & Luis Delgado

mtn130p19.shtmlNesting Sea Turtles at Sonadia Island, Bangladesh - M. Zahirul Islam, Foysal Ehsan & M. Mijanur Rahman

mtn130p22.shtmlMarine Turtles Stranded by the Samoa Tsunami - Lui AJ Bell, Juney Ward & Pulea Ifopo

mtn130p25.shtmlOn the Presence of Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) in the Cape Verde Archipelago - Nuria Varo-Cruz, Pedro López, Jacquie Cozens, Ana Liria-Loza1, Jacques Fretey & Luis Felipe López-Jurado>

mtn130p27.shtml2nd International Workshop to Mitigate Bycatch of Sea Turtles in Japanese Pound Nets - Takashi Ishihara, Yoshimasa Matsuzawa, John Wang & Hoyt Peckham

mtn130p29.shtmlSpecial Session on Bycatch Solutions at the World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress - S. Hoyt Peckham

Reports

mtn130p30.shtmlPresident's Report from the 31st Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation 'The Next Generation of Research and Conservation,' 10 - 16 April 2011, San Diego, California USA - Jeffrey A. Seminoff


Editors: Editorial Board

Lisa M. Campbell
Nicholas School of the Environment
and Earth Sciences, Duke University
135 Duke Marine Lab Road
Beaufort, NC 28516 USA

Managing Editor:

Michael S. Coyne
SEATURTLE.ORG
1 Southampton Place
Durham, NC 27705 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

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

This issue of the MTN was converted to HTML by ALan Rees

Acknowledgements:

Publication of this issue was made possible by donations from the following individuals: Holger Vetter, Ivan Cumpian, Anne Voigt and organisations: Conservation International, International Sea Turtle Society, IUCN - Marine Turtle Specialist Group, US National Marine Fisheries Service-Office of Protected Resources, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council. The MTN-Online is produced and managed by Michael Coyne.

The opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors and are not necessarily shared by the Editors, the Editorial Board, the University of Exeter, or any individuals or organizations providing financial support. Produced with assistance from:

NOAA WESTPAC MTSG Conservation International
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