"Carla"

Grupo Tortuguero: Pacific Sea Turtle Tracking

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Species: Loggerhead
Life Stage: Juvenile
Gender: unknown
Release Date: 1999-07-25 00:00:00
Release Location: off Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Last Location: 2000-11-03 17:58:38

Background

"Carla Guadelupe" is a juvenile loggerhead who was captured and released on 25 July 1999 near the mouth of Bahia Magdalena, in the Pacific Ocean. This turtle was named after the daughter of the fisherman (now a school teacher), Javier Miramontes, who captured a turtle in the same location five years ago that had a Japanese flipper tag. He gave us the tag this summer after carrying it around on his key chain since 1994. Thanks Javier! Carla, Javier's daughter, was a 12 year old "A" student with an interest in studying Marine Biology and English when this turtle was released. Now she is getting ready to go to college to study medicine.

For several months we lost this turtle's signal, then picked it up again. Maybe there was a colony of goose barnacles growing over the salt water switch?