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Sea turtles
Posted on 9/1/22 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 9/1/22 at 4:46 pm
Kayak fishing in Grand Isle surf this week. Counted over 25 sea turtles. Never have seen them in this close. Its this normal this time of the year?
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Posted on 9/1/22 at 4:53 pm to pattonquad
I think there's been an uptick. Would like to know the real reason. Don't think spillway effects GI too much but I figured that played a part in the increase on the east side. Maybe I'm wrong.
Posted on 9/1/22 at 4:57 pm to LEASTBAY
I've been coming to the Island for over 50 years. and I have NEVER seen any in the surf.
Very cool to experience.
Very cool to experience.
Posted on 9/1/22 at 5:21 pm to pattonquad
No shite. I've got a pair of boots made from sea turtle my dad picked up in Mexico years ago.
Posted on 9/1/22 at 6:59 pm to pattonquad
They are there every year. You'll often see them eating algae off the rocks in the pass.
Posted on 9/1/22 at 8:04 pm to pattonquad
I've been raking the beach with my Kia
Posted on 9/1/22 at 8:11 pm to pattonquad
See them all the time just a bit west of GI south of dulac. Once ran across a dead one floating that was easily 6’ long.
Posted on 9/1/22 at 8:14 pm to pattonquad
We’ve seen more this summer than we have in a long while. Happy to see it
Posted on 9/2/22 at 11:32 am to pattonquad
Was fishing the first bridge on the way down 2 weeks ago and they had several in the canal. Have seen the odd one a couple of times, but never multiple at the same time.
Posted on 9/2/22 at 11:50 am to Pandy Fackler
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pair of boots made from sea turtle my dad picked up in Mexico years ago.
F you
Posted on 9/2/22 at 12:36 pm to Tshiz
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F you
Hurt feelings?
Posted on 9/2/22 at 12:49 pm to pattonquad
The babies are pretty easy to catch with a Q-beam at night. Taste damn good too.
Posted on 9/2/22 at 12:50 pm to Pandy Fackler
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No shite. I've got a pair of boots made from sea turtle my dad picked up in Mexico years ago.
Doubtful. The Mexicans post armed guards on the beaches where sea turtles nest.
This post was edited on 9/2/22 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 9/2/22 at 6:28 pm to tommy2tone1999
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Doubtful. The Mexicans post armed guards on the beaches where sea turtles nest.
Not in 2011 and not in Cancun.
There are sea walls separating the resorts from the beach, so all the babies came out of the nests and went to the sea wall instead of the ocean (lights) and even when you pick them up and throw it out to the ocean, they swam back to the lights of the resorts. They were piled up by the thousands. Every morning right at dawn, the Mexican version of DNR came out and scooped them all up in buckets to drive them 10 miles south to release. Never saw an "armed guard".
Furthermore, sea turtles are neither endangered or threatened in the southeast anymore. But people still treat them like some rare jewel, a living fossil, and I admit they are definitely cool creatures, but the Save the Turtle shite that is going on today in the SE is a little overboard.
Posted on 9/2/22 at 7:40 pm to HeadSlash
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I've been raking the beach with my Kia
Thank you for your service.
Posted on 9/2/22 at 7:49 pm to deeprig9
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Furthermore, sea turtles are neither endangered or threatened in the southeast anymore.
Every one of them is either threatened or endangered
Posted on 9/2/22 at 8:21 pm to Ron Cheramie
Sid and Roxie's Green Turtle Inn and Restaurant.
I'd always grab a couple cans of Turtle Chowder coming back from the Keys.
Big Turtle cookout on an unnamed Island I use to live on in the Glades.
End of Stone Crab season boil...perfect.
Yankees save Turtles , Crackers eat them.
I'd always grab a couple cans of Turtle Chowder coming back from the Keys.
Big Turtle cookout on an unnamed Island I use to live on in the Glades.
End of Stone Crab season boil...perfect.
Yankees save Turtles , Crackers eat them.
Posted on 9/2/22 at 8:37 pm to pattonquad
I have seen a few at a dock where my friend keeps a boat on the east side of island. Only been going down there for 10 years and first I have ever seen them.They have never seen sea turtles in 25 years of fishing there.
In Texas their wild life and fisheries were going around and picking them up during the freeze 2 years ago.
In Texas their wild life and fisheries were going around and picking them up during the freeze 2 years ago.
Posted on 9/2/22 at 8:42 pm to Ron Cheramie
Not in every region. They are rated by region.
Posted on 9/2/22 at 8:59 pm to deeprig9
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Not in every region. They are rated by region.
They all fall under the blanket endangered species act which is federal.
For instance, some populations have reached their recovery goal for red cockaded woodpeckers but that population is still protected under the Endangered Species Act
Sea turtles are migratory so it wouldn’t make sense to be able to do something different in one region or state versus the other because they don’t stay on the same place very long
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