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Item Distinguishing captive-reared from wild Kemp's Ridleys(IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group, 1997-04) Eckert, Karen L.; Eckert, Scott A.In 1996, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) Galveston Laboratory, Gladys Porter Zoo (GPZ, Brownsville, Texas USA) and Instituto Nacional de la Pesca (INP) of Tamaulipas, Mexico. NMFS, GPZ and INP personnel tagged 3,336 hatchlings with non-magnetized wire tags (Patrick Burchfield, GPZ, pers.comm., January 1997). The tags (manufactured by Northwest Marine Technology, Shaw Island, Washington USA) were injected into the right foreflipper. Plans are to wire-tag up to 10,000 more hatchlings in the left foreflipper in 1997, thus distinguishing them from the 1996 year-class. The purpose of this paper is to alert the sea turtle research community to this tagging program, to provide background information concerning how and why it came about, and to provide criteria for distinguishing captive-reared from wild Kemp's ridleys.Item Manual of Best Practices for Safeguarding Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches(Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST), 2009) Ga-Young Choi; Eckert, Karen L.Item Research and Management Techniques for the Conservation of Sea Turtles(SSC/IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group, 1999) Eckert, Karen L.; Bjorndal, Karen A.; Abreu-Grobois, F. Alberto; Donnelly, M.NOAA WWF CMS SSC MTSG CMC