Hawksbill turtle tagged in Brazil captured in Gabon, Africa.

Abstract

On the 2nd of April, 1999, a fisherman of Cap Esterias, Gabon, turned in a tag (number BR15415) to sea turtle researchers working on a genetics project in West and Central Africa. The number was traced back to Projeto TAMAR-IBAMA (National Sea Turtle Conservation Program of Brazil), which has been tagging turtles as part of its conservation programme since its inception in 1980. This particular tag came from a sub-adult hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) first captured and tagged on 26th of November, 1994, in Sueste Bay on the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.