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turtles that occurred south of subarea 21 (south of 

 latitude 26°00'00"N), because they had been as- 

 signed erroneously to subarea 21 (Fig. 1 ); 

 turtles that occurred along the coastline of subarea 

 17, east of longitude 93°07'30"W, which is near the 

 mouth of the Mermentau River (Fig. 1), because 



access to it by the STSSN was limited by logistics 

 (Caillouet et al., 1991); 



turtles reported as caught or entangled, either in- 

 tentionally or incidentally, in commercial (includ- 

 ing shrimp trawls) or recreational fishing gears; 

 head-started turtles (identified by tags; see 



