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Marine Turtle Newsletter 9:5, © 1978

Blue Rototag Found in Costa Rica

N. Mrosovsky

A Dalton Jumbo Rototag, blue, numbered 264 on both sides, has been found on the North-Western Costa Rica (Golfo de Papagayo), in April 1978. This has been sent to Douglas C. Robinson (Escuela de Biologia, Universidad de Costa Rica, Rodrigo Facio, Costa Rica). He would appreciate hearing who uses these tags. Those in charge of tagging (or notching of hatchlings) are urged to keep others informed of the essentials of their programme (tag type, color, location and species tagged, if tag to be removed or left on, and for notching which scutes are notched). This newsletter publishes brief accounts of this kind.