A long-time resident of the Gulf
Specimen Marine Lab in Panacea will soon be released into the Gulf of
Mexico.
Gulf Specimen's educational loggerhead
sea turtle named "Little Girl" has been a resident the
aquarium since 2007.
She came from the National Marine
Fishery Service's Sea Turtle Head Start program in Galveston, Texas
where she was part of a program to test the efficacy of Turtle
Excluder Devices in shrimp nets.
She was hatched in 2005 and arrived at
Gulf Specimen in Sept 2007 when she was just over a foot long and
weighed just over 12 pounds.
She is now over 2 feet long and weighs
nearly 82 lbs. and is now considered a Sub-Adult so she can be
released in the wild.
Over the past 9 years she has been seen
by over 180,000 visitors at the aquarium.
If you want to say good-bye to little
girl, you can come to the release.
She will be released at Bald
Point State Park on Thursday December 29th.
For more information contact Gulf
Specimen Marine Lab at 984-5297.
http://live.oysterradio.com/
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