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Bahamas

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Indira Brown
Assistant Fisheries Officer
Department of Marine Resources
Ministry of Agriculture and
Marine Resources
P. O. Box N 3028
Nassau, Bahamas
protectorofthesea@gmail.com
Lakeshia Anderson
Parks Planner
The Bahamas National Trust
P.O. Box N-4105
Nassau, The Bahamas
landerson@bnt.bs
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Effective 1 September 2009, the Fisheries Regulations governing marine turtles were amended to give full protection to all marine turtles found in Bahamian waters by prohibiting the harvesting, possession, purchase and sale of turtles, their parts and eggs. The new regulations also prohibit the molestation of marine turtle nests.
Addison, D. S. and B. Morford. 1996. Sea turtle activity on the Cay Sal Bank. Bahamas Journal
of Science 3(3):31-36.

Addison, D. S. 1997. Sea turtle nesting on Cay Sal. Bahamas Journal of Science 5(1):34-35.

Bass et al., 2006. Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Foraging and Nesting Aggregations in the Caribbean and Atlantic: Impact of Currents and Behavior on Dispersal. Journal of Heredity 2006:97(4):346–354 Advance Access

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Bjorndal, K. A. and A. B. Bolten, 1996. Developmental migrations of juvenile green turtles in the Bahamas. Pages 38-39 in J. A. Keinath, D. E. Barnard, J. A. Musick, and B. A. Bell, compilers. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, February 1995, Hilton Head, South Carolina. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-387.

Bjorndal et al., 2003, Green Turtle with Living Tag Captured in the Southern Bahamas. Marine Turtle Newsletter No. 101:26

Bjorndal, K. A. and A. B. Bolten, 1998. Hawksbill tagged in the Bahamas recaptured in Cuba. Marine Turtle Newsletter 79:18-19.

Bjorndal, K. A. and Bolten, A. B., 1988. Growth Rates of Immature Green Turtles, Chelonia mydas, on Feeding Grounds in the Southern Bahamas. Copeia, Vol. 1988, No. 3, (Aug. 3, 1988), pp. 555-564

Bjorndal, K. A. and Bolten, A. B., 1988. Growth Rates of Juvenile Loggerheads, Caretta caretta, in the Southern Bahamas. Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 22, No. 4, (Dec., 1988), pp. 480-482

Bjorndal, K. A. and Bolten, A. B., 1995. Comparison of Length-Frequency Analyses for Estimation of Growth Parameters for a Population of Green Turtles. Herpetologica, Vol. 51, No. 2, (Jun., 1995), pp. 160-167

Bjorndal, K. A. and Bolten, A. B., 2008. Annual variation in source contributions to a mixed stock: implications for quantifying connectivity. Molecular Ecology (2008) 17, 2185–2193

Bjorndal, K. A. and Bolten, A. B., 1995. Estimation of Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Growth Rates from Length-Frequency Analysis. Copeia, Vol. 1995, No. 1, (Feb. 15, 1995), pp. 71-77

Bjorndal et al. 2000. Green Turtle Somatic Growth Model: Evidence Fordensity Dependence. Ecological Applications, Vol. 10, No. 1, (Feb., 2000), pp. 269-282

Bjorndal et al. 2003. Survival probability estimates for immature green turtles Chelonia mydas in the Bahamas. Marine Ecology Progress Series, l. 252: 273–281, 2003

Bjorndal et al. 2005. Evaluating Trends in Abundance of Immature Green Turtles, Chelonia mydas, in the Greater Caribbean. Ecological Applications, 15(1), 2005, pp. 304–314

Bolker et al. 2007. Incorporating multiple mixed stocks in mixed stock analysis: ‘many-to-many’ analyses. Molecular Ecology (2007) 16 , 685–695

Bolten, A. B., and Bjomdal, K. A., 1992. Blood Profiles for a Wild Population of Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Southern Bahamas: Size-Specific and Sex-Specific Relationships. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 28(3), 1992, pp. 407-413

Bolten, A. B., and Bjomdal, K. A., 1992. Blood Profiles for a Wild Population of Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Southern Bahamas: Size-Specific and Sex-Specific Relationships. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 28(3), 1992, pp. 407-413

Bowen et al., 2007. Mixed-stock analysis reveals the migrations of juvenile hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Caribbean Sea. Molecular Ecology (2007) 16, 49–60

Fleming, E. H. 2001. Swimming Against the Tide: Recent surveys of exploitation, trade and management of marine turtles in the Northern Caribbean. Traffic North America 161 pages.

First CITES Wider Caribbean Hawksbill turtle dialogue meeting in Mexico City, 15th-17th May 2001

Dodd et al, 2003. Post-Nesting Movements and Behavior of Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) Departing from East-Central Florida Nesting Beaches. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, Volume 4, Number 3 – 2003

Lahanas et al, 1998. Genetic composition of a green turtle ( Chelonia mydas) feeding ground population: evidence for multiple origins, Marine Biology (1998) 130: 345±352

Moncada et al, 2006. Movement Patterns of Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Cuba and Adjacent Caribbean Waters Inferred from Flipper Tag Recaptures, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 22–34, 2006

Moran et al, 2005. Simulated green turtle grazing affects structure and productivity of seagrass pastures, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 305: 235–247, 2005.

Moran et al, 2005. Simulated green turtle grazing affects structure and productivity of seagrass pastures, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 305: 235–247, 2005.

Friends of The Environment – www.friendsoftheenvironment.org
The Nature Conservancy – www.nature.org/wherewework/caribbean/bahamas/

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Loggerhead N, F
Green N, F
Leatherback N
Hawksbill N, F
Kemp’s Ridley I
Olive Ridley A
N=Nesting
F=Foraging
IN=Infrequent Nesting
IF=Infrequent Foraging
I=Infrequent (further data unavailable)
A=Absent

Dow et al 2007b

Bahamas National Nesting Beach Atlas

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