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One of the turtles that are stranded in Pescara
PESCARA. Walking on the beach and run into one, two, three, up to ten sea turtles death. A surreal scenario that the president of the Center studies Cetaceans Vincenzo Olivieri translates into “extraordinary stranding” and that has alerted dozens of citizens between Thursday afternoon and yesterday morning they studded calls the Harbour. Fault of the storm these days according to the Olivieri same as with the Cetacean center is working on behalf of the Master, by sorting dead specimens per species of belonging, sex, size and state of preservation; parameters under which it also highlights the conservation status of the carcasses and then send those in better state institute zooprofilattico of Teramo who will investigate the causes of death.
“You can not even say that it is the case of turtles that are stranded in the past two days along the coast between Giulianova and Francavilla, because they go again performed necropsies,” the expert explains, “but for what it is, in our area the main cause of sea turtle death is due to interference with some systems of fishing, especially small-scale fisheries, the one using gillnets. It is fixed, sliding the coast each of which is five kilometers long. Considering that there are three hundred fishing licenses only between Pescara and Martinsicuro, you can calculate roughly multiplying five kilometers to 300, that there are four times as long nets the coast of Abruzzo. They are very sketchy data, “emphasizes Oliver,” but which give a good idea. “
Therefore, according to the president of the Center cetacean studies for 30 years working in support of organizations and institutions in the interventions on live stranded animals, rehabilitation and release them into the sea, but also to make assessments and biometrics on dead specimens to monitor the status health of various species, the one that has occurred in recent days along the 70 kilometers of the Abruzzo coast is classified as’ an extraordinary stranding tied very effect of the storm that led to the ground dead animals which usually decompose at sea. Not all turtles that die at sea we find them on the beach, “explains still Olivieri.
But if it is clear that on the beach were boosted by the current and the waves these days, it remains to be determined with certainty because the ten turtles Caretta caretta have died at least the last ten days judging dall’esemplare in worse state. On this Olivieri it is cautious, but pending the outcome of zooprofilattico Institute analysis, relies on statistics which sees the drowning, due to bycatch, the probable cause of these deaths.
An opinion shared by those who go to sea every day for a lifetime, such as the manager Massimo Camplone who like other fishermen almost weekly interacts with the Cetacean Study Centre. “We fish 3, 4 turtles live a month,” reports Camplone, “the Cetacean Centre will send a lot, but there are also death, which remain at sea and then, as in this case, the storm door to the shore.”
But why they die? “At 90 percent the fault of gill nets, nets thrown to a mile and a half from the coast against which the turtles are going to sfragellare, but then the palancari, those who fall 20-30mila also love for each boat. The turtle goes to eat and die. The same palancari which then, in the latter period, when the area was prohibited there, “remarked Camplone,” destroyed all the Pomo Pit doing raids of cod, toads and moorhens. And perhaps these turtles are just victims of those raids. “
But waiting to learn the truth about the death of these fine specimens including
one of about 40 years at the height of the beached ship Cascella, without the head (severed almost certainly by fish) Dr. Olivieri does not exclude that new specimens today could arrive, the last remnants of the storm, on the beach of Pescara.
Courtesy of ilcentro.gelocal.it
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