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New York Marine Rescue Center hosted its first public release of seven sea turtles From the 22/23 cold stun season at Tiana Beach in Hampton Bays on July 27. DYLANN HANRAHAN
New York Marine Rescue Center hosted its first public release of seven sea turtles From the 22/23 cold stun season at Tiana Beach in Hampton Bays on July 27. DYLANN HANRAHAN
New York Marine Rescue Center hosted its first public release of seven sea turtles From the 22/23 cold stun season at Tiana Beach in Hampton Bays on July 27. DYLANN HANRAHAN
New York Marine Rescue Center hosted its first public release of seven sea turtles From the 22/23 cold stun season at Tiana Beach in Hampton Bays on July 27. DYLANN HANRAHAN
New York Marine Rescue Center hosted its first public release of seven sea turtles From the 22/23 cold stun season at Tiana Beach in Hampton Bays on July 27. DYLANN HANRAHAN
New York Marine Rescue Center hosted its first public release of seven sea turtles From the 22/23 cold stun season at Tiana Beach in Hampton Bays on July 27. DYLANN HANRAHAN
New York Marine Rescue Center hosted its first public release of seven sea turtles From the 22/23 cold stun season at Tiana Beach in Hampton Bays on July 27. DYLANN HANRAHAN
New York Marine Rescue Center hosted its first public release of seven sea turtles From the 22/23 cold stun season at Tiana Beach in Hampton Bays on July 27. DYLANN HANRAHAN
New York Marine Rescue Center hosted its first public release of seven sea turtles From the 22/23 cold stun season at Tiana Beach in Hampton Bays on July 27. DYLANN HANRAHAN
The New York Marine Rescue Center (NYMRC ) hosted its first public release of sea turtles from the 2022/23 cold stun season at Tiana Beach in Hampton Bays on July 27.
The center released five Kemps ridley and two Atlantic green sea turtles. All seven were stranded due to cold stunning, a phenomenon similar to hypothermia. The turtles have been receiving long-term rehabilitation for nearly 8 months.
In the months of November through January, the center responded to 98 sea turtles that had stranded due to cold stunning.
As a member of the Greater Atlantic Stranding Network, the center was asked by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to also take additional turtles from other network partners in Massachusetts. Due to limited rehabilitation space for sea turtles, they were part of a transfer that included two sub-adult loggerheads, 10 juvenile greens and eight critically endangered Kemps ridley sea turtles.
Cold stunned sea turtles stay at the center for about 242 days, typically being released in late July and early August. The average cost to rehabilitate one sea turtle is $10,000.
“The NYMRC staff are excited to start releasing sea turtles back home to their natural habitat,” said Maxine Montello, rescue program director at the center.
Staff Writer on Aug 2, 2023