Leatherback Sea Turtle was Originally Tagged in St. Kitts

2012-08-28 13:38:39 by

A leatherback sea turtle was captured August 9th, 2012 off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, by a research team led by Kara Dodge, a University of New Hampshire PhD student.
The tags it was bearing have been tracked back to St. Kitts. The St. Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network received this very exciting news Tuesday, via Prof. Julia Horrocks, the Coordinator of the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network?s Marine Turtle Tagging Center at the University of West Indies in Barbados.
The teams research focuses on the movements and behavior of leatherbacks in their foraging grounds off Cape Cod. They use a breakaway hoopnet to catch them, and then track them with GPS-linked satellite tags. This leatherback was only the second tagged female that had been captured over the course of the project, which has been running for four years and includes capture of adult males and females. This is a very interesting discovery to those living in NEVIS REAL ESTATE following the project.




Source:sknvibes.com