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Marine Turtle Newsletter 27:3, © 1984

Turtles in India: Special Issue on Management and Conservation

The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Post Bag 1912, Cochin 682018, India, has published a special issue on Sea Turtles (1983, Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical Information and Extension Series No. 50, pp. 41). It contains numerous photographs of habitat, turtles and utilization, and articles by E.G. Silas, M. Rajagopalan, A.B. Fernando and S.S. Dan.

Contents:

1. Sea turtles of India--Need for a crash programme on conservation and effective management of the resource.
2. Marine turtle conservation and management: A survey of the situation in Orissa 1981/82 and 1982/83.
3. Marine turtle conservation and management: A survey of the situation in West Bengal 1981/82 and 1982/83.
4. Nesting site and hatching of the Hawksbill turtle along Tirunelveli coast of Tamil Nadu.
5. Leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea washed ashore at Kovalam, Madras.
6. Conservation of fresh water turtles of India.
7. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute turtle hatchery programme, Kovalam, Madras.