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Captive loggerheads are released at Pelican Island NWR
Southeast Region, July 1, 2004
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This summer, Pelican Island NWR was the release site for 30 juvenile loggerhead turtles. Pelican Island NWR, is close to the Archie Carr NWR, but on the Indian River Lagoon side. Many juvenile sea turtles, mostly greens and loggerheads, prefer the calm waters of the Lagoon as developmental habitat, where they can feed and grow. These waters have one of the most abundant juvenile sea turtle populations in the country. These particular loggerheads aren?t your typical sea turtles. They were taken into captivity as hatchlings three years ago from a Florida beach and shipped to Texas, where scientists used them to test the effectiveness of turtle excluder devices (TEDs). TEDs are attached to shrimp trawl nets and provide turtles an escape hatch, while minimizing the loss of shrimp for commercial fishermen. The testing caused the turtles no harm. The release was the work of a partnership between the Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, Sebastian Inlet State Park, and the Archie Carr Working Group.

Contributed by: Paul Tritaik, Refuge Manager, Pelican Island NWR, Vero Beach, FL

No contact information available. Please contact Charles Traxler, 612-713-5313, charles_traxler@fws.gov


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