ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



This symposium was possible because of the participation of 

 hundreds of individuals from dozens of countries who took a 

 personal interest in the conservation and management of sea 

 turtles in their region, and for this reason the symposium was a 

 success and, to all of you we (the editors) are sincerely 

 grateful. 



To the personnel at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez 

 campus, we are indebted to you for your support throughout the 

 entire symposium planning and implementation period. In 

 particular, we would like to thank the WATS II staff, especially 

 Laura Acosta, WATS II Secretary from August 1985 to July 1987, 

 Mariblanca Aguet, WATS II Secretary from July 1987 to April 1988, 

 and Kathleen V. Hall, Graduate Student Assistant. Of the Sea 

 Grant staff we would like to thank Evangelina Hernandez, 

 Director, Communications and Publications and Mabel Suarez, 

 Secretary, Communications and Publications, Maria Matos, 

 Secretary, Marine Advisory Seirvices, Enidsa Vasquez, 

 Artist/Illustrator and Guillermo Damiani, Printing and Copying 

 Services. We extend our appreciation to Maritza Pagan, Maribel 

 Gonzalez, and Elba Estevez of the Department of Marine Sciences 

 for their stenographic services. 



We are indebted to Charles Karnella, Dean Swanson, and 

 Barbara Schroeder, the rapporteurs for undertaking the demanding 

 task of keeping a written record of all the panel sessions and 

 reviewing the original papers. Thanks to Thane Wibbels for his 

 able assistance with the poster session and collecting the 

 abstracts and to Pedro Gonzales, for all his help throughout the 

 symposium in too many ways to mention. James Richardson and 

 Rebecca Bell generously assisted the editors in reviewing the 

 original papers and Anne Meylan helped in editing the first 

 draft. 



Special thanks are due to Iva Walter for the long hours she 

 spent re-typing the many drafts of these proceedings and entering 

 it all on the word processor, Rosalie Vaught for her 

 bibliographic assistance, and to Eugene Nakamura for his expert 

 assistance in editing the final manuscript. All are at the NMFS 

 Panama City Laboratory, Panama City, Florida. 



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