The world according to me....

This is Lisa Goshe, biologist with NMFS-NOAA in Beaufort, North Carolina, at the end of a long day of working with fishermen to retrieve turtles from pound nets. Up before 6am and having spent long cold hours on the water, she nevertheless was kind and amiable when she called to say that she had an injured loggerhead that she found in one of the poundnets. I headed over to the NOAA lab in order to get the injured turtle and take it down to the Topsail Turtle Hospital. Lo and behold, she also had a healthy little Kemp's ridley that she had brought back in order to scan for a coded wire tag (it didn't have one). I quickly offered to release the little Kemp's from the beach on my way down to Topsail Island. She started to say 'thank you,' but I just told her that it's better that we all help each other out. In fact, I think both she and Larisa have done far more for us than the other way around. Besides, who ever considered releasing healthy turtles on the beach to be "work"???