CHAIR; 



SPEAKER; 



RAPPORTEUR; 



PANEL; 



Rapporteur Report of the Hawksbill Turtle Status 

 Panel Session 



Ralf Boulon, Jr., Division of Fish and Wildlife, 

 St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 



Walter Conley, Florida Department of Natural 

 Resources , USA 



Dean Swanson, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 USA 



Patricia Castaneda, Centre Reg. de Investigacion 

 Pesquera, Yucalpeten, Mexico 



Lynn Corliss, Jumby Bay Resort, Antigua 



Gustavo Cruz, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de 

 Honduras , Honduras 



Arthur Dammann, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands 



James Finlay, Ministry of Education and Fisheries, 

 Grenada 



Julia Horrocks, Bellairs Research Institute, 

 Barbados 



Anastasia Kontos, University of Georgia, USA 



Nigel Lawrence, Ministry of Agriculture, St. Lucia 



Colin Limpus, Queensland National Parks and 

 Wildlife Service, Australia 



Rene Marguez, Proyecto Nacional de Tortugas 

 Marinas, Mexico 



Jeanne Mortimer, University of Florida, USA 



James Richardson, University of Georgia, USA 



Wayne Witzell, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 USA 



Ralph Wilkins, Ministry of Agriculture, St. Kitts 



The chair introduced W. Conley who presented an overview of 

 the status of Eretmochelys imbricata in the absence of A. Meylan, 

 who had prepared the presentation but was unable at the last 

 minute to attend. The chair then invited comments by panel 

 members on the suggestion made in the Groombridge and Luxmoore 



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