Between August and December of the 2002, it was made an evaluation of the egg handling and hatchery of turtles in Cañas Island, for which observations during the process of egg harvesting on the part of the collecting team (gatherer of eggs) and sowing of litters were made in the hatchery, as well as the percentage of emergency of hatchlings. In first stage of the evaluation it was decided that the gathering should be made traditionally and in the second phase it was decided to change the methodology for which norms of separation between nests and rows settled down and the depth of the nest. The results indicate that the harvesting process responds more to interests of egg commercialization than to sowing in hatchery. With relation to the hatchery it was detected that the sowing process is inadequate, the nests badly are elaborated and the number of eggs seeded by nest is variable and that additionally the attention of the hatchery almost is nonexistent what repels in low percentage of emergency of hatchlings. Problems with depredators (dogs) which destroy the natural nests and invade in the hatchery represent a hazard for nesting in Cañas Island.
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