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Painted turtle: Chrysemys picta: Least concern: Adults are 6–25 centimetres (2.4–9.8 in). [2] Pond slider: Trachemys scripta: Least concern: Non-native species. Adults are approximately 8.9–36.8 centimetres (3.5–14.5 in). [2] Western pond turtle: Actinemys marmorata or Emys marmorata: Vulnerable
The ports of Seattle and Tacoma funded a joint economic impact study in 2013 and found that the ports' marine cargo divisions support a combined $138.1 billion in economic activity, equivalent to a third of Washington state's gross state product. The ports support more than 48,000 jobs, including 18,900 direct jobs, and produced $379 million in ...
Scientists took blood samples from many baby sea turtles near the Great Barrier Reef. Prior to this study, the ratio of male to female was pretty normal. There was a little more female than there was male but it was enough to keep reproduction and life cycle normal. The study showed that there was 99% more female sea turtles then male.
Seattle 88 26.8 1949 D A.B. Graham: stern psgr 1898 Puget Sound 126 38.4 Acme: 107460 prop tug 1899 Seattle 60 18.3 31 21 B Active [3] 1232 side 1849 New York 172 52.4 510 T-Mex Active: 107448 prop tug 1899 Tacoma 74 22.6 57 34 1949 B Addie: 105447 stern tug 1874 Seattle: 75 22.9 81 1900 A Addie Valvoline: 106409 prop tug 1898 Tacoma 46 14.0 14 7
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The Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP), founded in 1989, is a project of Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN), a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental organization with a goal of protecting endangered sea turtles from human-caused threats at nesting beaches and in the ocean.
A turtle excluder device (TED) is a specialized device that allows a captured sea turtle to escape when caught in a fisherman's net. In particular, sea turtles can be caught when bottom trawling is used by the commercial shrimp fishing industry. In order to catch shrimp, a fine meshed trawl net is needed.