report that, due to insufficient data, hawksbills should be 

 considered to be of Indeterminate status rather than Endangered 

 under CITES. The chair thought it would be a grave mistake to do 

 so. 



HORROCKS ; 



MORTIMER; 



LIMPUS : 



KONTOS : 



MARQUE Z : 



CHAIR; 



RICHARDSON; 



Comments were requested on hawksbill movements 

 between breeding and feeding grounds, after noting 

 that in Barbados the animals are believed not to 

 be in inshore waters year-round. 



Captures in the Seychelles occur during the 

 breeding season. 



In Australia, there are year-round feeding 

 aggregations of immatures and adults that will not 

 breed in that year, and that breeding grounds may 

 be more than 1,000 km away from feeding grounds. 

 The same scale of movement probably 'exists in the 

 Caribbean but involves multiple national 

 jurisdictions. A conclusion was drawn that 

 hawksbills shift habitats during their life 

 history. 



On Mona Island in Puerto Rico, adults are on the 

 feeding grounds year-round. However, the number 

 declines during the nesting season, but it 

 increases after the nesting season. 



Mexico has tagged hawksbills and loggerheads for 3 

 years, and there have been no recoveries outside 

 the tagging area, although every year there are 

 recaptures in the same zone where turtles are 

 tagged . 



One major problem given for the lack of nesting 

 studies in the Caribbean has been the diffuse 

 nesting of the species. Recently we have heard of 

 locations with concentrated nesting such as in 

 Antigua. These sites may provide an excellent 

 opportunity to learn more about the nesting 

 biology of the species. 



Nesting activity on these little pocket beaches 

 need to be measured. Population size may be 

 underestimated if we do not do this. Hawksbills 

 in Antigua and Barbuda seem to return to the same 

 nesting beach. Each country needs to walk its 

 beaches to locate the pockets of nesting. The 

 number of nesting females may be more than 

 presently thought but, because of multiple 

 nestings per female, there are fewer individuals 

 per beach. 



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