Friday, 10-7-2022
Ms. Jim and Mr. Rice, along with 10 HPA sea turtle research program volunteers traveled to Kiholo Bay and joined the Nature Conservancy Team that cares for the Kiholo fish ponds. The last time we conducted a trip to this locations was in 2019 with Sea Turtle Biology and Assessment Program team from Honolulu.
We were very anxious to see how the honu were doing after a three year lapse in observation. We arrived at 0830 in the morning and, after an opening chant and review of the history of Kiholo, we set up the work site and began our capture work.
We were able to capture, weigh and measure 8 honu by 1200 h after which we broke for lunch. After a great lunch with a birthday celebration, we resumed work and were able to work up 5 more turtles before it was time to pack up and call it a day.
It was a very successful day with the capture, weighing and measurement 13 honu. Everyone was engaged the whole time and the help and assistance of the Hui Aloha Kiholo and the TNC personnel made the trip a total success.
Summary:
13 Honu (Chelonia mydas) captured and worked up. (8 were new captures and 5 were recaptures.
The mean straight carapace length was 47.6 cm (std= 8.0)
The median straight carapace length was 45.4 cm
Below are pictures of the days activities and the work done by the HPA student volunteers.
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