The scientific community is not really familiar with capturing, so much as rescuing them when they have worked primarily in 'non-interference.' The Coast Guard needs to initiate contact to provide services. The scientists probably won't ask.
Perhaps the services of local fisherman can assist. Local fisherman have radar on their boats. Both the scientists and fisherman will have to be 'marshaled' by the Coast Guard for exemptions to the Endangered Species Act to allow for contact, also known as 'takes.' The scientists would know the 'route' of the turtles and other endangered species.
Gulf oil spill: 23 dead sea turtles wash ashore in Mississippi
May 3, 2010 | 10:03 am
The carcasses of 23 sea turtles have been found along Mississippi's 70 miles of coastline, and have been retrieved for examination by the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, said Moby Solangi, the group’s president and executive director.The carcasses were placed in garbage bags that were stacking up in the institute’s necropsy lab refrigerator unit.
Although this is the time of year when dead turtles are often found on the beach, scientists say the number is more than double what they would expect. Necropsies will be conducted Monday afternoon by a team of four veterinarians. It’s unclear whether the deaths are related to the oil spill, which is still offshore.
“This is the stranding season for sea turtles, but the numbers we are seeing are unusually high. It could be the result of heightened awareness and reporting, but they may also have been affected by the slick and floated this way,” Solangi said....REGARDLESS, the lame excuses, BP is the most responsible for its operations anywhere in the world. If they overlooked safety precautions when purchasing and installing equipment, it has just as liable as the manufacturer.
Deepwater Horizon oil spill: turtle deaths soar amid fight to save wildlife
Tests take place to determine cause of deaths, as locals hope booms along coastline will protect commercial fisheries
Jackye Carroll was walking along the beach that runs outside her home in Pass Christian, Mississippi, early this morning when she came across a curious sight. The sun had just come up and the white sand beach was looking at its most beautiful, but there, just above the gently lapping sea of the Gulf of Mexico was a grey-brown mound of flesh about two to three feet in length.
She put on the gloves that she had brought along in anticipation, and turned the mound over to find that it was a Loggerhead, one of the five threatened species of sea turtle found in this region. The sand around it was being stained red by blood seeping from its nose and underbelly. It was dead....
The oil will make the long fought for species extinct in the Gulf of Mexico. Its' habitat has been destroyed.
Turtle nesting season has begun
Posted on Monday, 05.03.1o
By STEVE PATTERSON, The Florida Times-Union
The Miami Herald
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. - Vida, a loggerhead sea turtle, was stranded for two days on a beach around St. Augustine, Fla., before someone saw she was alive and got help.
When staff at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center returned Vida to the ocean months later in 2008, a battery-powered satellite transmitter on her shell chronicled her travels for researchers on shore for four months.
That data could someday help protect her entire species.
Nesting season for sea turtles in Florida and Georgia began Saturday with loggerheads, the region's most common turtle, poised to be named an endangered species.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/03/1610697/turtle-nesting-season-has-begun.html#ixzz0muELf9Mt
