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30Th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation 24 - 30 April, 2010, Goa, India Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter No. 12 changes in clutch frequency rather than to changes future research on sea turtles, and reminds us why it in absolute numbers of reproductive females. In the is so important to have accurate measures of basic life end, the Casey Key study has set a benchmark for history measures. Literature cited Girard, C., A.D. Tucker & B. Calmettes B. 2009. Post- Saba, V.S., J.R. Spotila, F.P. Chavez & J.A. Musick. nesting migrations of loggerhead sea turtles in the Gulf of 2008. Bottom-up and climactic forcing on the worldwide Mexico: dispersal in highly dynamic conditions. Marine population of leatherback turtles. Ecology 89: 1414- Biology 156: 1827-1839. 1427. Girondot, M., M.H. Godfrey, L. Ponge, P. Rivalan. 2007. Tucker, A.D. 1989. So many turtles, so little time: Modeling approaches to quantify leatherback nesting tends underestimating fecundity and overestimating in French Guiana and Suriname. Chelonian Conservation populations? In: Eckert SA, Eckert SA, Richardson TH and Biology 6: 37-46. (Comps.) Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Workshop on Sea Turtle Conservation and Biology, NOAA Tech Memo Reina, R.D., P.A. Mayor, J.R. Spotila, R. Piedra & F.V. NMFS-SEFSC-232, pp 181-183. Paladino. 2002. Nesting ecology of the leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, at Parque Nacional Marino Las Tucker, A.D. & N.B. Frazer. 1991. Reproductive variation in Baulas, Costa Rica: 1988-1989 to 1999-2000. Copeia leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, at Culebra National 2002: 653-664. Wildlife Refuge, Puerto Rico. Herpetologica 47: 115-124. Report 30th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation 24 - 30 April, 2010, Goa, India Kartik Shanker President, International Sea Turtle Society Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India. Email: [email protected] For the first time in 30 years, the International Sea drew attention to the wide range of ecosystems that Turtle Society’s Annual Symposium was held in sea turtles inhabit including coastal, nearshore and south Asia, a region home to globally significant oceanic ecosystems, from sandy beaches to coral populations of marine turtles, and a diverse range reefs and seagrass meadows, and pelagic habitats. of organisations, community based groups and An important focus of the symposium was also to institutions involved in sea turtle research and draw attention to the human communities that sea conservation. The symposium provided an excellent turtles interact with, in particular resource dependent opportunity to participants from countries in South coastal fishing communities. and Southeast Asia underrepresented in previous symposia to attend the event. With over 500 participants from over 60 countries, the success of the symposium was reflected in the The theme of the symposium ‘the world of turtles’ coming together of ideas in research and lessons in July 2010 17 Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter No. 12 conservation from a diverse range of individuals species conservation objectives and those with an and groups, representing the diverse habitats that the interest in fisheries and highlighting the culture worlds turtles inhabit, together with the diversity of and diversity of various South Asian fisheries to the social aspects of conservation and its impacts on promote awareness of its multifaceted complexity. people, both at the local and regional / global scale. The Organising Committee of the Fisheries Forum comprised a range of partner organisations including Over 400 abstracts were received and a total of 376 Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore, Foundation were presented after a careful review process by the for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Programme Committee, overseen by Programme Learning (FERAL), Pondicherry, FishMarc, Chairs Matthew H. Godfrey and Brendan Godley Trivandrum, International Collective in Support of and the Programme Coordinator DuBose Griffin. Fishworkers (ICSF), Chennai, Kalpavriksh, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Duke University The symposium was held at the Kala Academy Marine Laboratory (USA). Aarthi Sridhar from in Panaji, Goa’s renowned centre for performing Dakshin Foundation and Gomathy N.B. of the arts, situated on the banks of the Mandovi River. Tata Institute of Social Sciences facilitated the The venue was ideal for hosting main symposium proceedings of the Forum. Dakshin Foundation sessions in addition to parallel and satellite meetings and FERAL also organised a Culture of Fisheries and workshops. A few workshops were also held at Exhibition with financial assistance from Fisheries the Taj Vivanta Hotel situated across the road from Survey of India, SACEP, VJSMF and Sir Ratan Tata the Kala Academy. All evening social events were Trust. held at the Cidade de Goa hotel at Vainguinim beach in Dona Paula. The South Asia Mini-Symposium was held to fulfill a ‘need to initiate integrated and coordinated Programme conservation actions, and an opportunity to share and learn from each other’. The mini-symposium Pre-symposium meetings and workshops brought together stakeholders and representatives commenced on 24 April and included workshops of conservation groups and research organisations on: Marine Invasive Species, Bayesian Statistics, from across the region. Invited presenters included Stable Isotopes and Conservation of Marine participants from Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Turtles and Dugongs. Regional meetings including Pakistan and Sri Lanka. In addition to presentations the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, Africa, made under thematic sessions, a review of Mediterranean and Latin America (RETOMALA) existing platforms and opportunity to initiate fresh meetings were held on the three days prior to the strategies towards collective regional action plans symposium. Workshops on Satellite Telemetry and was undertaken by a panel of experts including Turtle Rehabilitation, and the IUCN SSC Marine representatives from key organisations from across Turtle Specialist Group – Annual General Meeting the region. were held on 30 April. Complementing the objectives of the mini- Two special meetings were held at this year’s symposium to “promote regional cooperation in symposium: the Fisheries Forum on 25April and sea turtle conservation in South Asia”, the Maldives the South Asia Mini-Symposium on 26 April. The government ratified the Indian Ocean –South-east Fisheries Forum drew attention to the various Asian Marine Turtle Memorandum of Understanding dimensions of interactions between fisheries (IOSEA), becoming the latest signatory to the and conservation. The participation of a diverse memorandum. range of participants, including representatives of resource dependent livelihood communities and Main Symposium Programme conservationists, was instrumental in achieving the objectives of conducting the forum; that of enabling The main symposium sessions were held between greater interaction between participant groups with 27-29 April at the Kala Academy, with parallel July 2010 18 Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter No. 12 sessions running at the adjacent hall within the addressed to the Minister for Environment and Academy complex. Symposium session titles, which Forests, Government of India, Mr. Jairam Ramesh were intended to reflect the theme of the symposium expressed serious concern over the proliferation of included: Ecosystem function, Conservation and large-scale coastal development in the close vicinity Management, Foraging Biology, Fisheries and of ecologically critical coastal areas, and called for Bycatch, Health and Physiology, Research in Social protection of such areas by introducing effective Science, Environmental Impacts, Reproduction legal safeguards. In particular, it asked that no ports Biology, and Migration and Navigation. There were be permitted within 25 km of olive ridley turtle mass- 119 oral, 30 speed (oral) and 222 poster presentations nesting areas and other important feeding, migratory during the symposium. Dedicated “meet the author” and refuge habitats. The other key demand was for a poster sessions were held between 3:30 and 4:00 pm no-development zone for all industrial activities for on 27 and 28 April. at least a 10 km radius around the olive ridley mass nesting beaches in Orissa. Over 300 participants The main symposium was opened by Kartik present at the symposium signed this petition. The Shanker, and the sessions commenced on 27 April copy of the letter enclosing the petition was uploaded with a keynote address by Romulus Whitaker on by the Ministry of Environment & Forest on its ‘A brief history of sea turtle conservation in India’. website. The Minister has acknowledged receipt of Brian Bowen delivered the second keynote address the petition in a meeting with president of the ISTS on the afternoon of 27 April on the ‘Comparative and promised to look into the issues and concerns phylogeography of sea turtles and marine fishes’. raised and to take action in this regard. The sessions concluded on 29 April with a keynote address by Jack Frazier entitled ‘Marine turtle The Archie Carr Student Awards ecology and Heraclitus’ river’. Eight out of a total of 109 student presentations Lunch meetings held during the days of the were selected for the Archie Carr Student Award symposium included an informal discussion under the categories of best (and runner-up) oral group on sea turtle genetics coordinated by Nancy presentations in biology and conservation and best Fitzsimmons, a meeting on ports and shipping (and runner-up) poster presentations in
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