Second sea turtle washes ashore in Southeast

Fri, January 4, 2008
Posted in Alaska News

A female green sea turtle found dead near Sitka last week traveled thousands of miles to reach Southeast Alaska shores. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the turtle likely originated from Mexico or the Galapagos Islands. About four weeks earlier, a sea turtle was recovered near Ketchikan.

Melissa Marconi-Wentzel, KCAW - Sitka

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3 Comments to “Second sea turtle washes ashore in Southeast”

Brooke on January 6, 2008 at 4:22 am

WOW! hmmm global warming is writtin all over that, when things like this happens to AK! or a el nino thing happening again!
Morris J. Alexie on January 7, 2008 at 3:38 pm

Now where are those critics of global warming and where is that news man who wanted to puke at an Alaskan yup’ik teen? We truly are the Last Frontier, and I bet that turtle is an endangered species so it’s not just Akan’s Last Frontier but the endangered also. And as we get this news, MINERS are having open country here in the Last Frontier.

Nunapicuaq Boy
Richard E. Wisecarver on January 11, 2008 at 12:07 pm

I really isn’t all that unusual for various sea turtles and tropical fish to appear Alaska waters. The giant sun fish, barracuda, several species of tuna all ride parts of the Japanese current and that current shifts east and west during various cycles. King Mackeral and other predetors move closer with the current as well and prey heavily on salmon smolt-especially king salmon smolt so we can expect as usual reduction in the numbers of certains species of salmon available for harvest. At the same time Oregon, Washington and California can expect increases in the high seas survival rate of their salmon smolts. These shifts are nothing new and while we may or may not be undergoing a serious climate shift, it is not appropiate to blame every bad storm, drought, current shift, ocean warming on global warming. If it is important to understand climate change then we should not cry wolf everytime something to do with the environment appears unusual. Too often when the history is checked closer these occurances fall well within normal statistics. Richard of Wasilla