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Sightings Records Of Hawksbills In A Marine Protected Area Of Honduras, Marsha K. Wright, Linda Baeza, Christian Hayes, Lidia A. Salinas, Stephen G. Dunbar
Sightings Records Of Hawksbills In A Marine Protected Area Of Honduras, Marsha K. Wright, Linda Baeza, Christian Hayes, Lidia A. Salinas, Stephen G. Dunbar
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The Protective Turtle Ecology Center for Training, Outreach, and Research, Inc. (ProTECTOR) works to increase the conservation of, and research on sea turtles in the country of Honduras. Efforts were made this summer to record the sightings of sea turtles in Roatán, specifically in the area of West End and the Roatán Marine Park (RMP). We worked in tandem with 13 dive shops in West End from June 9 – August 8, 2014 to collect dive sightings data. We prepared turtle sighting record sheets that prompted observers to record their name, the dive site and depth of each turtle sighting, …