"Gata" - Grupo Tortuguero: Pacific Sea Turtle Tracking

A project of Grupo Tortuguero Tracking Project.

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Background

The East Pacific green turtle "Gata" ("Cat" in Spanish) that we began tracking in July 2000 was reported captured by a fisherman and eaten by some 100 people. Gata was the largest black turtle (Chelonia mydas) we have ever captured in Baja (at over 140 kg = approx 310 lbs). Victor Mesa and Julio Solis, the fishermen who helped us with this project and named the turtle were very angry after hearing the news. Turtles like Gata may be more than 50 years old and their migrations to southern nesting beaches to reproduce are the hope of sea turtle recovery in the region. Gata's demise represents a big loss to Baja's sea turtles. Her last accurate position was from September 2000. By looking at her map you'll see that she never left the Bay.

• The presentation of data here does not constitute publication. All data remain copyright of the project partners. Maps or data on this website may not be used or referenced without the explicit written consent of the data owners.
• For more information please visit the project website.
• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A', 'B'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
• This maps also shows locations of class 'A' as small black dots which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO One Minute Grid.
• Sea surface temperature and chlorophyll are derived from NASA's Ocean Color data.
• Ocean currents and sea surface heights are derived from AVISO's Ssalto/Duacs Gridded Absolute Dynamic Topography & absolute geostrophic velocities data.

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