Sea Turtle Conservation: Tackling ‘Floating Syndrome’ A Caribbean Perspective

Authors

  • Ayanna Carla N. Phillips Savage Department of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Michelle Cazabon-Mannette Save Our Sea Turtles, P.O. Box 27, Scarborough, Tobago, West Indies

Keywords:

Sea Turtles, Hawksbill, Eretmochelys imbricata, Loggerhead, Caretta caretta, Threatened species, Rehabilitation, Caribbean

Abstract

In July 2013, a severely debilitated, critically endangered juvenile hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) washed
ashore on Campbleton Beach, in northeast Tobago, West Indies. Four years later, in June 2017, a similarly debilitated,
vulnerable sub-adult loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) stranded on Manzanilla Beach, on the east coast of Trinidad,
West Indies. Floating Syndrome was diagnosed in both cases.

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Published

2020-12-31

Issue

Living World 2020

Section

Research Papers