Sumitha - Chennai India, olive ridley tracking

A project of Tree Foundation, India.

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Background

Sumitha is an olive ridley tagged by TREE Foundation. Her tracking will help to illustrate concerns about local fisheries interactions, such as bycatch in trawl fishery and gill netting. Sumitha laid 120 eggs when she nested, she measures 72 cm length and 67 cm width, and the tag is a Kiwisat 202. Sumitha the turtle was named to honor Dr. Dharini's mother who is fighting cancer and has been an inspirational backbone for TREE Foundation activities.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
• This maps also shows locations of class 'B', 'Z', 'X' 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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