At about 1530 hours I got a call about a dead turtle at 134 Puako Beach Road. The details are below.
Call came in at 1300 h on Sunday (8/12/18 ). Dead Turtle partially buried in the sand in front of 134 PBR.
Responded at 1530 and could not find the turtle - King tide had washed it out to sea. At 1620 we saw the turtle floating near shore about 30 meters from the point where it was first observed on shore. Turtle has been dead a few days... loosing scales on flippers and head. Retrieved the turtle and placed it in a plastic bag and transported it to HPA and the freezer (1700 h).
species: Chelonia mydas
Size= CCL = 67.5 cm
Location: 19.962977° N, 155.856073° W
Tags: LH = 470C5F763
No apparent cause of death.
TAG HISTORY:
| 470B366F42 | 470C5F7623 | 11/28/07 | KALOKO | Zone D |
scl =
53.0 |
| 470B366F42 | 470C5F7623 | 11/18/08 | KALOKO | Zone A | 53.2 |
| 470B366F42 | 470C5F7623 | 10/13/09 | KALOKO | Zone B |
53.0
|
| 470B366F42 | 11/15/13 | KALOKO | Zone B | 56.8 |
This turtle was a Koloko Honokohau capture for a number of years (2007 to 2013) and it appears to have moved to a different forage ground... Interesting!!!!
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