This publication should be cited as follows: Frick, M., Panagopoulou A., Rees A. F. and K. Williams (compilers). 2006. Book of Abstracts. Twenty Sixth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. International Sea Turtle Society, Athens, Greece. 376 pp. This publication can be freely downloaded from: http://www.seaturtle.org/ists/ Hard copies can be obtained by writing to: ARCHELON,...

Penaeid shrimp is a major resource in India contributing about 7.4% of the total marine fish landings. They are mostly landed by small mechanized trawlers. Shrimp trawling generates large quantities of bycatch mostly consisting of juvenile fishes, due to use of small mesh size in codends of trawl nets. Juvenile Fish Excluder cum Shrimp Sorting Device (JFE-SSD) is a bycatch reduction device with...

Interactions with sea turtles have occurred at an alarming rate in swordfish longlining in Hawaii in recent years and various regulations have been put forward to protect sea turtles. In order to understand the cost of reducing sea turtle interactions, methods have been developed to derive the shadow price of sea turtle bycatch based on fisher's welfare loss from a specific regulation. This pap...

mental Contamination and Toxicology 40, 531–536. Plotkin, P., 2003. Adult migrations and habitat use. In: Lutz, P.L., Musick, J.A., Wyneken, J. (Eds.), The Biology of Sea Turtles, vol. 2. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 225–242. Saeki, K., Sakakibara, H., Sakai, H., Kunito, T., Tanabe, S., 2000. Arsenic accumulation in three species of sea turtles. BioMetals 13, 241–250. Sakai, H., Saeki, K., Ic...

Thermal tolerances are affected by the range of temperatures that species encounter in their habitat. Daniel Janzen hypothesized in his "Why mountain passes are higher in the tropics" that temperature gradients were effective barriers to animal movements where climatic uniformity was high. Sea turtles bury their eggs providing some thermal stability that varies with depth. We assessed the relat...

This publication should be cited as follows: Frick, M., Panagopoulou A., Rees A. F. and K. Williams (compilers). 2006. Book of Abstracts. Twenty Sixth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. International Sea Turtle Society, Athens, Greece. 376 pp. This publication can be freely downloaded from: http://www.seaturtle.org/ists/ Hard copies can be obtained by writing to: ARCHELON,...

Although seafood species identification has traditionally relied on morphological analysis, sometimes this is difficult to apply for the differentiation among penaeid shrimps owing to their phenotypic similarities and to the frequent removal of external carapace during processing. The objective of this review is to provide an updated and extensive overview on the molecular methods for shrimp an...

Symbiotic relationships between shrimps and other invertebrates are a very common phenomenon in tropical environments. Although the caridean shrimp-ascidian association has been known for many years, the nature of this relationship is still unclear. The current study investigated the association between the caridean shrimp Odontonia sibogae (Bruce, 1972) and solitary ascidians. A combination of...

An experiment of 45 days duration to test the efficacy of the Vibrio alginolyticus as an immunostimulant was conducted in Marsupenaeus japonicus against white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) infection, considered as one of the serious pathogens of shrimps. The shrimps were fed with the experimental diets coated with different concentrations of bacteria of 17 ml / kg feed and 10 % of animal body wt. ...