[Dtwg] By-catch

Barbara Brennessel bbrennes at wheatonma.edu
Wed Oct 30 16:11:10 EDT 2019


A quick comment: As far as sharing the poaching presentations, that would
be up to the presenters at the DTWG workshop...

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 12:40 PM Marguerite Whilden <tidewater1 at mac.com>
wrote:

> Following up on Barbara’s comments regarding the recent poaching
> presentations - is there anyway I can get copies of these?  Also, what is
> the TED resolution/position paper, audience, and expected outcome?
> Many thanks
>
> On Oct 30, 2019, at 11:47 AM, TURNER <redknot at optonline.net> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone The idea of a DTWG resolution/position paper concerning the
> value of TED's was discussed and supported during Sunday's breakout session
> on by-catch at the recent DBT symposium. I have drafted many resolutions,
> having worked for various elected officials. Would you like for me to take
> a crack at a first draft?
>
>
> John Turner
>
> Seatuck Environmental Association
>
> New York
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> On October 18, 2019 at 10:02 AM "Roosenburg, Willem" <roosenbu at ohio.edu>
> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Willem
>
> Willem M Roosenburg
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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>
> 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>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >  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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