Yesterday a female Green Turtle was found dead off the coast of Punta Gorda. Nicanor Requena and his colleagues came across the lifeless turtle while on a recreational boating excursion. Requena and his colleagues immediately tried to assist the turtle but it was too late. He took to social media to share pictures of the sad sight. Today via phone he told us how it was trapped.
Nicanor Requena, Found Turtle
"We were on a recreational and basically what we observed was the Tuttle entangled a rope attached to 2 fish traps and what I proceeded to do along with my other colleague was to document it. We took pictures of it and we subsequently reported it to TIDE and to the Fisheries Department who in my opinion are the entities to follow up on it. Based on what I observed it could be that maybe it was a fish trap that was abandoned, but I have no evidence to say for surety that it was what happened."
"From my perspective it is a protected species being entangled in fishing gear and like I said I don't know if this is an isolated case or not, I simply meant to document it and have it be brought to the attention of those that can follow up on it."
Requena says this is the first time he has seen an incident like this. They did report it to TIDE and The Fisheries Department which will investigate.
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