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Table 3 List of products and secondary products used commercially along the Southwestern Coast of the Gulf of Venezuela

From: Trade of marine turtles along the Southwestern Coast of the Gulf of Venezuela

Products and secondary – products

Price*

Meat and guts (green/hawksbill/loggerhead)

US$ 5 to 6 per kilo

Complete turtle (green turtle/hawksbill)

US$ 163 to 210

Marine turtle meal (restaurants) (all species)

US$ 8 to 9

Leatherback oil

US$ 5 per Littre

Dried penis (green turtle/hawksbill)

US$ 14 to 37

Carapace (hawksbill)

US$ 300

Roosters spurs (hawksbill scutes)

US$ 9 the pair

  1. *prices calculated by 1 US dollar per 199 Venezuelan Bolivars (official Venezuelan rate in 2014, called SIMADI)