[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 
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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 
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> On Oct 30, 2019, at 11:47 AM, TURNER < redknot at optonline.net 
> wrote: 
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> 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? 
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> John Turner 
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> Seatuck Environmental Association 
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> New York 
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> On October 18, 2019 at 10:02 AM "Roosenburg, Willem" < roosenbu at ohio.edu 
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> 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 
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> 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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> Cheers, 
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> Willem 
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> 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 
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> *Cc:* Dtwg at listserv.ohio.edu 
 
> *Subject:* Re: [Dtwg] Captive PIT tagged terrapin 
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> 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... 
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> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 6:25 PM Marguerite Whilden < tidewater1 at mac.com 
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> wrote: 
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> 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? 
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> > On Oct 16, 2019, at 12:15 PM, Barbara Brennessel < bbrennes at wheatonma.edu 
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> 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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