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Marine Turtle Newsletter-Online
Number 138 July 2013

MTN138 Cover
Hatchling leatherback from Sandy Point, St. Croix, US Virigin Islands, where a genetic tagging project is underway (see pages 3-7; photo: K.R. Stewart).

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Editorial

mtn138-1Guest Editorial: The Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle is Recognized in Texas! - Carole H. Allen

Article

mtn138-2A Method for Sampling Hatchling Sea Turtles for the Development of a Genetic Tag - Peter H. Dutton & Kelly R. Stewart

mtn138-3Trends in Marine Turtle Nesting and Egg Predation on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica - Phoebe S. Barquero-Edge

mtn138-4A History of Sea Turtle Tagging and Monitoring on Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA - Breanna L. Ondich & Kimberly M. Andrews

mtn138-5Observations of Green and Hawksbill Turtles on the Southwest Coast of Mauritius - Imogen Webster

mtn138-6Interviews with Fishers suggest European Longlining Threatens Sea Turtle Populations in Cape Verdean Waters - José Melo & Tommy Melo

mtn138-7First Report of Nesting of the Black Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) on the North Pacific Coast of Colombia - Karla G. Barrientos-Muñoz, Cristian Ramírez-Gallego & Luis Rivas

mtn138-8Is the Hawksbill Turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, a Regular Nester on Rodrigues Island (Indian Ocean)? - Jacques Fretey, Thierry Frétey, Alain Dupré, Judith Dupré, Aurèle Anquetil André & Arnaud Meunier

Report

mtn138-9President’s Report: The 33rd Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, “Connections,” 2-8 February 2013, Baltimore, Maryland USA - Raymond R. Carthy

Announcement

mtn138-1034th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, 10-17 April, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Roldan Valverde

Publications

mtn138-11RECENT PUBLICATIONS


Editors Managing Editor Editorial Board
Kelly R. Stewart
NOAA-National Marine Fisheries
Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center
3333 N. Torrey Pines Ct.
La Jolla, California 92037 USA
E-mail: mtn@seaturtle.org
Fax: +1 858-546-7003

Matthew H. Godfrey
NC Sea Turtle Project
NC Wildlife Resources Commission
1507 Ann St.
Beaufort, NC 28516 USA
E-mail: mtn@seaturtle.org

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

Founding Editor

Nicholas Mrosovsky
University of Toronto, Canada

Brendan J. Godley & Annette C. Broderick (Editors Emeriti)
George Balazs
Alan B. Bolten
Robert P. van Dam
Angela Formia
Colin Limpus
Nicholas J. Pilcher
Manjula Tiwari
ALan F. Rees
Kartik Shanker
Oğuz Türkozan
Jeanette Wyneken

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

Acknowledgements:

Publication of this issue was made possible by donations from the following organisations: Conservation International, IUCN - Marine Turtle Specialist Group, US National Marine Fisheries Service-Office of Protected Resources, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council.

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