ABSTRACT
The highly localized feeding and nesting grounds of the green turtle, its clumsiness in matter to do with procreation, and its sheer size have made it an easy target for man. It first attracted attention as an antiscorbutic to supplement the monotonous shipboard fare of the buccaneers. The green-turtle problem has been attracting much attention and steps are beginning to be taken in several areas to save this fabled creature, so beloved of epicures and gourmets, from going the way of the passenger pigeon, the heath hen, and the great auk. It is argued that the average mature green turtle yields about 150 pounds of edible meat and that this is about the weight of the lifetime egg production of a female, assuming 600 eggs for each of three egg-laying seasons. In the summer of 1960 some 20,000 baby greens were hatched.
