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Volunteers Release Sea Turtles Into Atlantic
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Published: July 2, 2008
VERO BEACH - More than 140 loggerhead sea turtles have been returned to the Atlantic Ocean.
A group of volunteers released 39 turtles Monday morning at Sebastian Inlet State Park, near Vero Beach. Another 103 turtles were released later in the day off the coast of Fort Pierce.
The turtles were captured more than two years ago as hatchlings and raised at a research facility in Galveston, Texas. They were recently transported to Panama City for two weeks to help scientists test turtle excluder devices on shrimp trawls.
The devices allow sea turtles to escape from fishing nets while minimizing the loss of shrimp. They have been mandatory since 1987.
The Associated Press
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