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World Status, Exploitation and Trade - WIDECAST

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MARTINIQUEDomingue" (Dominican Republic?), <strong>and</strong> frozen turtle meat was purchased fromforeign fishing boats, especially Venezuelans (Dropsy, 1987). Exportrecords from the Dominican Republic show the export to Martinique of 6332 kgof turtle between 1980 <strong>and</strong> 1983 (Ottenwalder , 1987b).LEGISLATIONArrete of 5 December 1927 provided for the protection of turtle eggs.Arrete Pr6fectoral Martinique N0.496/PMC, 19 March 1983.It is forbidden to take, sell, purchase or consume:Any turtle eggsAny D. coriacea .Any C. mydas or E. imbricata between 15 April <strong>and</strong> 15 October or of lessthan 60 cm in length outside this period.337

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