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Number 60   January 1993

Editors: Karen L. Eckert & Scott A. Eckert Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute 1700 South Shores Road San Diego, California 92109 USA

Editorial Advisors: Nat B. Frazer Nicholas Mrosovsky David W. Owens Peter C.H. Pritchard James I. Richardson

Articles:

Field Survey of Leatherback Nesting Beaches in the Bird's Head Region, Irian Jaya, is Renewed - Malcolm Stark

Sea Turtles and the Summer Flounder Trawl Fishery, USA

Survey of Sea Turtle Products for Sale in Shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Ian G. Baird

Western Australian Marine Turtle Conservation Project: An Outline of Scope and an Invitation to Participate - Robert I. T. Prince

Bluegreen and Red Algae Identified from Florida Loggerhead Turtle - C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr. and Clinton J. Dawes

Controlling Turtle Egg Predators in the Goksu Delta, Turkey: Some Options - Lorna Brown

Cayman Turtle Farm CITES Exports — The Facts - James R. Wood

Turtle Hatcheries in Sri Lanka: Boon or Bane? - Suhashini Hewavisenthi

Marine Turtle Specialist Group: Update

Action Plan for Sea Turtles in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India - Satish Bhaskar and Harry Andrews

Stalking the Border

A New Sea Turtle Information Centre in Zakynthos - Dimitrios Dimopoulos

Announcements:

* * 13th Annual Sea Turtle Symposium * *

Sea Turtle Post Cards

* * Friends of the Marine Turtle Newsletter * *

Meeting Reports

First Course on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation in Venezuela - Hedelvy J. Guada and Pedro Vernet P.

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Acknowledgements:

Publication of this issue was made possible by donations from Elsa Dickson (Vancouver, B.C.), Peter Bennett and Ursula Keuper-Bennett (Mississauga, Ontario), Daryl McNeilly (Woodbridge, CA), Diana Gardener (Medford, OR), Cayman Turtle Farm Ltd., The Chelonia Institute, World Wildlife Fund-US (WWF-US), and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The Spanish edition is supported by Confederación Universitaria Centroamericana, WWF-US, and USFWS, and is produced by Susana Salas, Coordinadora, Noticiero de Tortugas Marinas, CSUCA, Programa de Tortugas Marinas-UCR, Apdo. 271-2050, San Pedro, Costa Rica.

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