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2. Turning turtle

3. To track, to conserve

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Paper
Foraging Ecology of Northern Elephant Seals. Ecological Monographs 70(3):353-382, Le Boeuf, B.J., Crocker, D.E., Costa, D.P., Blackwell, S.B., Webb, P.M. and Houser, D.S. 2000.

Quantifying the Effects of Fisheries on Threatened Species: the Impact of Pelagic Longlines on Loggerhead and Leatherback Sea Turtles. Lewison, R.L., S.A. Freeman and L. B. Crowder. 2004. Ecology Letters (7): 221-231.

Electronic
OBIS SEAMAP (Ocean Biogeographic Information System - Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertabrate Populations)

The Marine Conservation Biology Institute

TOPP: The Tagging of Pacific Pelagics.

Census of Marine Life.

The United Nations' 1982 Law of the Sea.

The Ocean Conservancy

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization on fisheries.

The Pew Oceans Commission

For kids and educators: Oceans Alive!

More help for teachers from National Geographic

Empty oceans, empty nets?

National Marine Fisheries Service

The World Resources Institute offers a global marine strategy.

The Sea Turtle Restoration Project

The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society

Track sea turtles in the Atlantic.

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