7-31-18
In keeping with the idea of logging our activities, I have decided to include things that may involve less than pleasant information. In that vein, I am posting a report of a dead honu from the Puako area. Yesterday morning at 0730 hours a report came in that there was a dead honu on the beach at 12 Puako Beach Road. Below are some images of the poor critter. There was no apparent cause of death but the animal was fairly severely emaciated and had fishing line wrapped around the right front flipper (fishing line was not the immediate cause of deaath). I recovered the turtle and placed it in our HPA freezer and it will be shipped to Honolulu (the Marine Turtle Biology and Assessment Program) folks who will do a necropsy to try and determine the cause of death. Recovering stranded/dead turtles is very important from a scientific standpoint ... it enables us to enumerate the numbers, locations, causes and implications of death in sea turtles. Please make every effort to report sick injured or stranded turtles to 8814200.
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| Location of dead honu on beach. |
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| This sub-adult green turtle measured 62.5 cm curved carapace length. It was found dead on the sandy beach. |
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| Fishing line was wrapped around the right front flipper. |
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