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Marine Turtle Newsletter 113:10, © 2006
Training workshop for fishermen at Casablanca port, Morocco
Wafae Benhardouze1, Manjula Tiwari2, Mustapha Aksissou1 & Matthew H. Godfrey3
1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, PO Box 2121, Tetouan 93002, Morocco (E-mail: benhardouze@hotmail.com)
2 NOAA-NMFS, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 8604 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
3 Sea Turtle Project, NC Wildlife Resources Commission, 1507 Ann St., Beaufort, NC 28516 USA
On 12 May 2006, Wafae Benhardouze and Mustapha Aksissou from Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Tetouan, Morcocco, organized a training workshop for 34 fishermen at Casablanca port. This workshop was part of a collaborative study between Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Manjula Twari, and Matthew Godfrey to evaluate the impact of fisheries on sea turtles found in these waters. The project is funded by the Rufford Small Grants program in the UK and the Chelonian Research Institute. Through this workshop we tried to educate the fishermen about turtles and data collection techniques and also further strengthen our collaboration with them to collect data on accidentally captured sea turtles. Children of the fishermen also participated in this workshop. A drawing competition was held for the children who then received prizes. Other workshops are being planned along the Moroccan coast in Agadir, Laâyoune and Dakhla.
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