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Marine Turtle Newsletter 33:14-15, © 1985

Proceedings: Symposium on Endangered Marine Animals and Marine Parks

The Symposium took place in Cochin, India, 12-16 January 1985. Proceedings may be ordered from the Marine Biological Association of India, Post Box No. 1023, Ernakulam, Cochin-682 011, India. Among the papers delivered were the following (included in Volume 2 "Estuarine and Marine Reptiles"):

E. O. Moll. Estuarine turtles of tropical Asia: Status and management.
F. J. Schwartz. Sea turtles as possible dispersal agents for fish otoliths.
Ross Witham. Managing Florida (USA) sea turtle populations.
Romulus Walker. Rational use of estuarine and marine reptiles.

P. Mohanty-Hejmadi, M. Behra and Marie T. Diamond. Temperature dependent sex differentiation in the olive ridley Lepidochelys olivacea and its implications for conservation.

Rathin Banerjee. The marine turtle Lepidochelys olivacea Eschscholtz, its occurrence and captive rearing in Sunderbans.

E.G. Silas, M. Rajagopalan, S. S. Dan and A. Bastian Fernando. On the continued exploitation of olive ridley Lepidochelys olivacea and its second mass nesting at Gahirmatha, Orissa during 1984.

F. J. Schwartz. Sea turtle body-organ weights: their relationships during growth and responses to the environment.

P.K. Ponnuswamy and Abdul A. Rahaman. Captive rearing of hatchlings of olive ridley Lepidochelys olivacea at Point Calimere, Tamil Nadu.

Abdul A. Rahaman, P.K. Ponnuswamy and K. Rajendran. Recovery plan for olive ridley Lepidochelys olivacea at Point Calimere, Tamil Nadu.

Brian Goombridge. India's sea turtles in world perspective.

S. K. Raut and N. C. Nandi. Present state of marine turtle conservation and management in West Bengal.

Pon. Siraimeetan. Observations on the green turtle Chelonia mydas along the Gujarat coast.