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Scientists studying red tide impact of turtles and hatchlings
Published: January 22, 2021 4:20 PM EST
Updated: January 24, 2021 10:55 AM EST
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Scientists want to know the long-term effects of red tide on turtles and their hatchlings.
They are collecting data and hope to be able to report back by year’s end on what the toxins from the algal blooms did to the population of sea turtles that nest in Southwest Florida shores.
The massive red tide bloom in 2018 resulted in the “largest number of sea turtle deaths ever attributed to a single red tide event,” said Kelly Sloan, director of Coastal Wildlife and Sea Turtle Program Coordinator at the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation.