a live leatherback
Wednesday September 29, 2010
During morning, CEPESMA has rescued a leatherback turtle weighing 200 kilos in the last night stranded on the sands of the beach Oleiros pixueta.
At 21:00 hours a call was received 112 emergency service to report its presence in the vicinity of the beach. People and late at night, could not do anything for rescatarl due to the complicated topography of the area at night and weight of the animal.
Today Wednesday, CEPESMA staff with the invaluable help of a boat Employer's own staff of the Fishermen's Association of Cudillero and Francisco Javier Garcia Yoldia II sailboat pattern that makes tourist promenade in the port, has made it out to sea. The status of that issue at the moment is satisfactory, but until you spend a few days we can not guarantee its recovery since the stranding occurred, according to our suspicion, by being trapped in an art possibly pots at the marks found on her body, which may involve neurological problems after being in a near-drowning phase before being released from fishing gear.
At the time of release, just one of the problems encountered in its development has been the insistence of the specimen in making circles on itself, a situation characteristic of the problem mentioned, but then plunged the most natural, but we wait at least 24 hours to ensure that no new stranding finish, which is expected in these circumstances.
Leatherbacks, the largest turtle in the world can reach 600 kilos, is played mainly on the coasts of Central America and the Bay of Biscay is relatively frequently found, although in recent years has decreased alarmingly its population world, considered a vulnerable species.
The past year has been 7 CEPESMA strandings of this species, all of corpses in various parts of Asturias, made unusual in recent times.
This turtle is different from other marine turtles do not have chalky shell, but made up of a structure that simulates a hardened skin with crested longitudinal cartilage.
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