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Marine Turtle Newsletter-Online
Number 143 October 2014

MTN143 Cover
Loggerhead sea turtle incidentally captured in Ceará, Brazil and later seen nesting in Quintana Roo, Mexico (see page 16). Photo credit: Banco de Imagens, Projeto TAMAR/ICMBIO_CE.

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Editorial

mtn143-1Interruption of the Kemp’s Ridley Population’s Pre-2010 Exponential Growth in the Gulf of Mexico and its Aftermath: One Hypothesis - Charles W. Caillouet, Jr.

Article

mtn143-2Two More Cases of Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Italian Waters of the Northwestern Adriatic Sea and an Inorganic Contaminant Investigation - Carola Vallini, Olga Annibale, Simonetta Menotta, Silva Rubini & Luciano Tarricone

mtn143-3Sea Turtle Strandings and Mortalities on the Southeast Coast of Guatemala - Rachel Brittain, Sarah Lucas, Scott Handy & Rob Nunny

mtn143-4Flying Fish Egg Harvest off Keelung, Taiwan Uncovers Occurrence of Pelagic-Phase Green Turtles - Ka-yan Ng, Tien-Hsi Chen & George H. Balazs

Note

mtn143-5Second Record of Tagged Loggerhead Moving Between South and North Atlantic - Eduardo H.S.M. Lima, Maria Thereza D. Melo, Alexsandro S. Santos, Alejandro A. Arenas & Matthew H. Godfrey

Report

mtn143-6China/USA Sea Turtle Workshop in Hawaii 2014 - George H. Balazs, Jeffrey A. Seminoff & Thierry M. Work

Announcement

mtn143-72nd Southeast Regional Sea Turtle Meeting, 4-6 February 2015 in Jekyll Island, GA, USA - Kim Sonderman

Publications

mtn143-8RECENT PUBLICATIONS


Editors Managing Editor Editorial Board
Kelly R. Stewart
The Ocean Foundation
c/o Marine Mammal and Turtle Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service
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La Jolla, California 92037 USA

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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
Nicolas 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.

The MTN-Online is produced and managed by Michael Coyne.

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