[Dtwg] Captive PIT tagged terrapin

[Roosenburg, Willem]

I think this is part of what Joe was trying to get at with his talk,. – that we have a “limited access” national database. adding PIT tag numbers to this database could be useful

Barbara, you mentioned that the source of the tag had been identified, would you be so kind as to share that information – at least did it originate from a wild population and if so what state.

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Willem
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From: Dtwg <dtwg-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu> On Behalf Of Barbara Brennessel
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 8:25 PM
To: Marguerite Whilden <tidewater1 at mac.com>
Cc: Dtwg at listserv.ohio.edu
Subject: Re: [Dtwg] Captive PIT tagged terrapin

This is an interesting idea.  I leave it to the leadership of the DTWG to decide on a policy and devise a method to share this information.  Perhaps the tagging efforts could be shared at regional meetings and then collected at the next national meeting...

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 6:25 PM Marguerite Whilden <tidewater1 at mac.com<mailto:tidewater1 at mac.com>> wrote:
Regarding the tagged terrapin discovered at a reptile show, it would be helpful to have a readily available chart describing all terrapin tagging efforts.  If not already established there should be a code of ethics adopted by any/all researchers permitted by States to tag wild terrapins that would require an effort to notify the source of the original tag. (The Maryland Scientific Collection Permit once required such notification.) I learned recently that terrapins with Terrapin Institute tags and other obvious telltale marks on the shell were discovered in the Chesapeake.  Unfortunately there was no effort to identify the original tagger and report such findings because the researcher was unaware of any other tagging programs.  The Terrapin Institute has posted several photos depicting examples of our various tagging techniques beginning with our 1998 tags.
Might there be any interest among this membership to compile a chart of tagging efforts and develop a code of ethics?

> On Oct 16, 2019, at 12:15 PM, Barbara Brennessel <bbrennes at wheatonma.edu<mailto:bbrennes at wheatonma.edu>> wrote:
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> Thank you for all your responses. We identified the area from which the captive PIT tagged terrapin originated.  Law enforcement is now in the picture.
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>  It's quite a coincidence that this was reported just after the DTWG workshop in Wilmington at which there were a couple of talks that mentioned poaching.
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