7/2/18 - Waikoloa, Hawaii
One of our STRP students observed a line entangled turtle north of Anaehoomalu Bay, Hawaii at noon and reported it to the HPA sea turtle hotline. Marc Rice went down to A Bay and Holly showed the way to the turtle.
Below are images of the capture, line removal and release of the turtle- data sheet for this turtle is at the end of this post.
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The entangled turtle was .64 miles to the north of A Bay beach so Holly and I walked there with a carrier to place the turtle in.
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| The little turtle was rather moribund in a small tidepool.... good call Holly! |
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| Hollly picked up the turtle and placed in in our carrier so that we could work on the line tangled around its neck and right front flipper. |
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| Fishing line wrapped around the RFL. |
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| The line was around the neck and beginning to strangulate the right front flipper, cutting into the flesh - see below. |
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| RFL shoeing how the line was cutting into the flesh of the shoulder. |
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| After removing the fishing line we placed it on the carapace so get a picture of it. |
Once the line was removed we tagged the turtle and took pictures of the right and left side of the head for future identification.
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| About 25 minutes after we capture the turtle, Holly released it back to the ocean all free of line and with two new PIT tags. |
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| Data sheet for rescued turtle. |
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