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Marine Turtle Newsletter 31:11, © 1984

Proceedings: Madras Sea Turtle Workshop

The Workshop on Sea Turtle Conservation (Madras, 27-29 February, 1984) was organized by the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (Cochin), in cooperation with the Department of the Environment (Government of India), the Marine Biological Association of India and the Madras Crocodile Bank. The Proceedings are now available as CMFRI Special Publication Number 18, from the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, P.O. Box 1912, Cochin-682 018, INDIA. The volume includes the following papers:

J. C. DANIEL. Problems of sea turtle conservation in India.

SATISH BHASKAR. The distribution and status of sea turtles in India.

C. S. KAR and M. C. DASH. Mass nesting beaches of the olive ridley Lepidochelys olivacea (Escholtz, 1829) in Orissa and the behavior during an arribada.

M. RAJAGOPALAN. Value of sea turtles to India.

SHETAR DATTATRI. Threats to sea turtles in India - exploitation and habitat perturbations.

ROMULUS WHITAKER. Recovery and management programmes for sea turtles in India: their value, logistics and problems.

J. FRAZIER. Contemporary problems in sea turtle biology and conservation.

C. S. KAR and M. C. DASH. Conservation and status of sea turtles in Orissa.

K. SHANMUGANATHAN and JOSEPH JOGINDRANATH. Status report of Tamil Nadu of sea turtles.

S. L. CHANDARJI. Status of sea turtle conservation in Karnataka State.

KAFEEL A. SHAIKH. Distribution of nesting sites of sea turtles in Maharashtra.