[Dtwg] Captive PIT tagged terrapin

    Barbara Brennessel bbrennes at wheatonma.edu
    Wed Oct 16 20:25:15 EDT 2019 
    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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Barbara Brennessel, Ph.D.
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