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Marine Turtle Newsletter-Online
Number 145 April 2015

MTN145 Cover
Leatherback skull from Suriname in the late 1960s with signs of injury from a jaguar. Photo credit: N. Mrosovsky.

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Editorial

mtn145-1Cause and Call for Modification of the Bi-National Recovery Plan for the Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) - Second Revision - Charles W. Caillouet, Jr., Benny J. Gallaway & André M. Landry, Jr.

Article

mtn145-2Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Marine Turtles: Investigation of Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) Tags and Readers - Sheryan P. Epperly, Lesley W. Stokes* & Lisa C. Belskis

mtn145-3Contrasting Incubation Data for Lepidochelys olivacea Highlight the Need for More Experimentation and Detailed Reporting - Alejandra Morales Mérida*, Adanary Ruiz*, Erik Navarro*, Itzel Sifuentes-Romero, F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois§ & Marc Girondot§

mtn145-4Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Monitoring Sea Turtles in Near-Shore Waters - Elizabeth Bevan, Thane Wibbels, Blanca M.Z. Najera, Marco A.C. Martinez, Laura A.S. Martinez , Francisco I. Martinez, Javier M. Cuevas, Tiffany Anderson, Amy Bonka, Mauricio H. Hernandez, Luis Jaime Pena & Patrick M. Burchfield

mtn145-5Settling Down in Hawaii: Adaptation of Captive-bred Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) Released from the Maui Ocean Center - George Balazs, Denise Parker, John Gorman, James Luecke & Jeff Pawloski

Announcement

mtn145-6New e-Book on Sea Turtles of Southwest Florida

Report

mtn145-7Report On Illegal Take and Trade of Marine Turtles in the Indian Ocean Region - Pishum Migraine

Publications

mtn145-8RECENT 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
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 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.

The opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors and are not necessarily shared by the Editors, the Editorial Board, their institutions, or any individuals or organizations providing financial support.

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