CHAIR ; 



SPEAKER ; 



RAPPORTEUR ! 



PANEL; 



Rapporteur Report of the Leatherback Turtle Status 

 Panel Session 



Nicholas Mrosovsky, University of Toronto, Canada 



Peter Pritchard, Florida Audubon Society, USA 



Herman Kumpf, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 USA 



Karen Eckert, University of Georgia, USA 



Scott Eckert, University of Georgia, USA 



James Finlay, Ministry of Education and Fisheries, 

 Grenada 



Jacques Fretey, Museum National d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, France 



Kathleen Hall, University of Puerto Rico, USA 



Jean Lescure, Museum National d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, France 



Krishnepersad Mohadin, STINASU, Surinam 



David Nellis, Division of Fish and Wildlife, St. 

 Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 



Jose Rueda, INDERENA, Colombia 



Anton Tucker, University of Georgia, USA 



The chair called the panel members to the panel platform and 

 introduced the primary speaker, P. Pritchard, who in turn gave 

 the status address which included a brief review of basic biology 

 and population status of the leatherback, Dermochelys coriacea. 



The status address presented a background of biological 

 information covering taxonomy, identification, reproduction, 

 distribution, life history features, population estimates and 

 general ecology. 



LESCURE; 



Several experiments conducted by the research team 

 on marine turtles from the Paris Museum were 

 described. One experiment on the effect of 

 incubation temperature on the sex of the hatchling 

 showed the following: 



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