Marine turtles are challenging species to protect because they occur over large geographic scales. Tagging individual turtles at nesting beaches and foraging areas, and the resulting mark-recapture data sets have gradually enabled us to understand marine turtle migratory behaviour and dispersal. Within the Caribbean region, several turtle tagging projects have led to longer-term evaluations and assessments of connectivity. Thus, marine turtle mark-recapture data is important for developing conservation strategies at regional-scale. In this study, we analyse turtle tagging data from the Gulf of Venezuela to determine regional (Caribbean and Atlantic geographic level) and local (within the Gulf of Venezuela) links. To achieve this, we retrieved, compiled, and analysed multiple databases with records of marine turtles that were tagged and then recaptured in the Gulf of Venezuela. Sixty-six tag return records were evaluated, 43 from animals initially tagged outside of the Gulf of Venezuela and then recaptured inside, plus 23 records retrieved from turtles that were tagged and recaptured within the Gulf of Venezuela. We found evidence of connectivity between 12 different locations where initial tagging events occurred, eight from other feeding areas and four from nesting beaches. We described four different movement patterns for 23 turtles tagged and re-captured within the Gulf of Venezuela. Most of the recapture records we obtained occurred after the turtles were known, or presumed, to have been killed by local fishers. Hence, knowing patterns of dispersal and connectivity are crucial to improving local and regional conservation and threat mitigation.

海龟是具有挑战性的物种，因为它们的分布范围很大。在筑巢的海滩和觅食区域对单个海龟进行标记，由此产生的标记捕获数据集逐渐使我们能够了解海龟的迁徙行为和扩散。在加勒比地区，一些海龟标记项目导致了对连接性的长期评估和评估。因此，海龟商标的捕获数据对于制定区域规模的保护策略很重要。在这项研究中，我们分析了委内瑞拉海湾的海龟标记数据，以确定区域（加勒比和大西洋的地理区域）和本地（委内瑞拉海湾内）的联系。为此，我们检索，编译，并分析了多个数据库，这些数据库带有被标记并随后在委内瑞拉湾重新捕获的海龟记录。评估了66条标签返回记录，其中43条来自最初被标记在委内瑞拉海湾以外然后被重新捕获的动物，另外23条是从被标记并重新捕获在委内瑞拉海湾的海龟中获得的记录。我们发现了发生初始标记事件的12个不​​同位置之间有连通性的证据，其中8个来自其他喂养区域，另外4个来自嵌套海滩。我们描述了在委内瑞拉湾内被标记并重新捕获的23只海龟的四种不同运动方式。我们获得的大多数捕获记录都发生在已知或假定海龟被当地渔民杀死之后。因此，