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Marine Turtle Newsletter-Online
Number 136 January 2013

MTN136 Cover
An adult female hawksbill on Sir Bu Nair island (United Arab Emirates) shortly before release. A satellite transmitter was attached while she was held in a custom-made portable containment box (see pages 3-4; photo: N.J. Pilcher).

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Article

mtn136p1Repatriation of a Kemp’s Ridley from the Eastern North Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico - Sheryan P. Epperly, Antonieta Nunes, Henk Zwartepoorte, Lynne Byrd, Meghan Koperski, Lesley Stokes, Marco Bragança, Anton D. Tucker & Christopher R. Sasso

mtn136p3A Portable Restraining Box for Sea Turtles - Nicolas J. Pilcher

mtn136p5A Simple Humane Method to Euthanize a Sea Turtle - Thierry M. Work & George H. Balazs

mtn136p7Nesting Hawksbill Turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, Disorientation at a Beach Resort on Príncipe Island, West Africa - Rogério L. Ferreira & Helen R. Martins

mtn136p9Sea Turtle Conservation in Ghana’s Western Region: The Bigger Picture - Claire Tanner

mtn136p13First Alligator Snapper: A Short Story - J. Whitfield Gibbons

Review

mtn136p16BOOK REVIEW

Publications

mtn136p17RECENT PUBLICATIONS


Editors Managing Editor Editorial Board
Kelly R. Stewart
NOAA-National Marine Fisheries
Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center
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Matthew H. Godfrey
NC Sea Turtle Project
NC Wildlife Resources Commission
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Beaufort, NC 28516 USA
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Michael S. Coyne
SEATURTLE.ORG
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Durham, NC 27705 USA

Founding Editor

Nicholas Mrosovsky
University of Toronto, Canada

Brendan J. Godley & Annette C. Broderick (Editors Emeriti)
George Balazs
Alan B. Bolten
Robert P. van Dam
Angela Formia
Colin Limpus
Nicholas J. Pilcher
Manjula Tiwari
ALan F. Rees
Kartik Shanker
Oğuz Türkozan
Jeanette Wyneken

This issue of the MTN was converted to HTML by ALan Rees

Acknowledgements:

Publication of this issue was made possible by donations from the following organisations: Conservation International, IUCN - Marine Turtle Specialist Group, US National Marine Fisheries Service-Office of Protected Resources, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council.

The MTN-Online is produced and managed by Michael Coyne.

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