Four live, one dead sea turtle, washed up on Phuket Beach

By The Thaiger

 

PHOTOS: Bang Yat / Newshawk Phuket

 

Four live sea turtles and one dead were washed up on Nai Yang Beach this morning (September 13). All of them were stuck in fishing nets.

 

Sririnat National Park officers were notified this morning about the four lives turtles that were found on Nai Yang Beach.

 

The five turtles were stuck in the one big fishing net.  Four of them are Olive Ridley sea turtles and the other one is a Hawksbill sea turtle. One of the live sea turtles had a leg missing.

 

Source: https://thethaiger.com/news/phuket/four-live-one-dead-sea-turtle-washed-up-on-phuket-beach

 

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27 minutes ago, webfact said:

All of them were stuck in fishing nets.

My place is along side the Nan River and many of the villagers farm and fish. It is quite common to see a new nylon rope stretched down the road trying to get the kinks out as a fisherman works on their fishing net.The nets seem to do rather well, as I have seen some fairly large fish pulled out of the river.

 

I always see rolls of new nylon to build the nets but very few piles of discarded fishing nets...

 

If you walk in the early morning at a beach you will find out that almost 70% of the trash comes from the fishers.