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Sea Turtle Technical Memoranda and Reports

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• Braun-McNeill, J. and Witzell, W.N. 2001. Assessment of the impact of the pelagic longline fishery on loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles of the north Atlantic. Chapter 5. Summary of takes by the pelagic longline fishery in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-455:161-169.
  
  
• Braun-McNeill, J. and Witzell, W.N. 2001. Summary of observed, estimated, incidental, lethal, and strandings take levels, sea turtle life stage, geographic region of activity, and reference for permitted and non-permitted specific and generalized activities impacting sea turtles in the U.S. Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-455:245-297.
  
  
• Braun-McNeill, J., Goodman, M. A. , and Patton, B. W. 2010. Surfacing behavior of loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtles in estuarine and coastal waters of North Carolina. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-605, 72 pp.
  
  
• Epperly, S.P. and Braun, J. (Compilers). 1998. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Sea Turtle Symposium. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-415, 294.
  
  
• Epperly, S.P., Snover, M.L., Braun-McNeill, J. , Witzell, W.N., Brown, C.A., Csuzdi, L.A., Teas, W.G., Crowder, L.B., and Myers, R.A. 2001. Stock Assessment of loggerhead sea turtles of the western north Atlantic. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-455:3-66.
  
  
• Epperly, S., Avens, L. , Garrison, L., Henwood, T., Hoggard, W., Mitchell, J., Nance, J., Poffenberger, J., Sasso, C., Scott-Denton, E., and Yeung, C. 2002. Analysis of sea turtle bycatch in the commercial shrimp fisheries of Southeast U.S. waters and the Gulf of Mexico. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-490, 88.
  
  
• Epperly, S.P. and Braun-McNeill, J. 2002. The use of AVHRR imagery and the management of sea turtle interactions in the mid Atlantic Bight. National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, Fl, 8p.
  
  
• Goodman, M.A., Braun-McNeill, J., Davenport, E., and Hohn, A.A. 2007. Protected species aerial survey data collection and analysis in waters underlying the R-5306A Airspace: Final report submitted to U.S. Marine Corps, MCAS Cherry Point: NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-551, 25 pp.
  
  
• National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center. 2008. Sea Turtle Research Techniques Manual. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-579, 92 pp. Contributors: Avens, L. , Belskis, L., Benson, S., Braun-McNeill, J., Dutton, P., Flanagan, J., Harms, C., Higgins, B., Kelly, T., McClellan, C., Morreale, S., Sasso, C., Southwood, A., and Wyneken, J.
  
  
• Thompson, N.B., Schmid, J.R., Epperly, S.P., Snover, M.L., Braun-McNeill, J. , Witzell,W.N., Teas, W.G., Csuzdi, L.A., and Myers, R.A. 2001. Stock assessment of leatherback sea turtles of the western north Atlantic. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-455:67-104.
  
  
• Turtle Expert Working Group. 2007. An assessment of the leatherback turtle population in the Atlantic Ocean. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-555, 116 p.