Sea turtle found tangled in discarded fishing net in Phuket needs flipper amputated

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

The sea turtle it brought ashore by beachgoers. Photo: Chanyut Butkrim/Facebook

 

PHUKET: A sea turtle which was found caught in a discarded fishing net off Nai Yang Beach yesterday morning will have to have its right leg amputated due to the severity of its wound and official from the Phuket Marine Biology Centre has confirmed today.

 

At 10am yesterday (June 8), beachgoer Mr Chanyut Butkrim, 27, was alerted of the stranded sea turtle by a Russian tourist so immediately went to help the stranded animal and managed to safely bring it to shore.

 

Mr Chanyut said, “The turtle had its front right flipper stuck in a fishing net so I called officials from the Phuket Marine Biology Centre (PMBC) to come and assist. 

“While we were waiting for officials to arrive we tried to help the turtle.

 

“When I first tried to cut the fishing net I couldn’t, so I grabbed a glass bottle from nearby, broke it and then used a piece to cut the net. This took us two hours.

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/sea-turtle-found-tangled-in-discarded-fishing-net-in-phuket-needs-flipper-amputated-62501.php

 

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SAD! Wish there were a global solution for our oceans on the drawing board. By the time we figured out we've <deleted> it up, it will be way too late.

If you walk in the beach at early morning you find out that 30-50% of all garbage be from the fishermen.

So much pieces from fisher nets, ....!!!

 

It is same you shit on the table where you eat from!!!

Besides the fishing boats there are lots of freighters from all over ther world that come to Ports in Thailand.

  I believe that some of the garbage also comes from those ships.  I also believe that lots of the garbage

does come from fishing boats, but with the huge debris field i as well , n the middle of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans

  there is a world wide problem that could be improved upon, but won't be in our life time, as it would cost

tons of money to get rid of the tons of garbage.

Geezer

   What was Flipper doing to that poor turtle; and which part of him needed to be amputated?