Turtles Take Time (and Space) Movie Download
Taleen Sameh
The Ninja Turtles discover an artifact that sends them through time and space. The plot of the story find the turtles themselves on an amazing adventure through time and space! Will they ever get home?
From nesting to hatching and their mad dash to the sea, the process of nesting is incredible to witness. Every year Leatherbacks, Loggerheads & Green Sea Turtles (and sometimes a wayward Kemps Ridley) return to our beaches to lay their clutches of eggs. Depending on the species these nests will be up against the dunes, or right in the middle of the beach. Organizations like the Sea Turtle Preservation Society and others mark these nests with wooden stakes, keep your eyes out for them on your beach days and be very careful not to disturb them.
Did you take a sea turtle walk on the Space Coast? Show us by posting pictures and videos of your before or after (not during in order to keep the turtles safe) and tagging us using #SpaceCoast.
Create a turtle program with three functions to control the turtle. Create a function called turnLeft that turns the turtle 90 degrees left when the right arrow is pressed on the keyboard. Create a function called turnRight that turns the turtle 90 degrees right when the right arrow is pressed. Create a third function called move() that moves the turtle forward when the space bar is pressed, then stops the turtle when the spacebar is pressed a second time.
Female leatherbacks nest at night on tropical and subtropical beaches. They dig a large body pit to lay their eggs in deep egg chambers/nests. A nesting leatherback will disturb a huge area on the beach and leave behind long, circling tracks. In the United States and Caribbean, the nesting season lasts from March to July. Satellite tagging studies of leatherbacks from the Western Pacific indicate that turtles that nest during different times of the year have different migration patterns. Summer nesting turtles (July through September) have tropical and temperate northern hemisphere foraging regions, while winter nesters (November through February) traverse to tropical waters and temperate regions of the southern hemisphere. Female leatherbacks return to nest every 2 to 4 years. Leatherbacks nest several times during a nesting season, typically at 8- to 12-day intervals and lay clutches of approximately 100 eggs. The eggs incubate approximately two months before leatherback hatchlings emerge from the nest.
Increasing pollution of nearshore and offshore marine habitats threatens all sea turtles and degrades their habitats. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history and affected nesting (including nesting females, eggs, and hatchlings), small juvenile, large juvenile, and adult sea turtles throughout the Gulf of Mexico. Ingestion of marine debris is another threat to all species of sea turtles. Leatherback turtles may ingest fishing line, balloons, plastic bags, floating tar or oil, and other materials discarded by humans which they can mistake for food. They may also become entangled in marine debris, including lost or discarded fishing gear, and can be killed or seriously injured.
The United States has taken significant steps to protect leatherbacks in our waters. In the Pacific, a leatherback conservation area was established off the coast of California in 2001 that prohibits drift gillnet fishing from August 15 to November 15 in 213,000 square miles of the Exclusive Economic Zone. In 2009, the Marianas Trench, Rose Atoll, and Pacific Remote Islands marine national monuments were established, prohibiting commercial and recreational fisheries, thus providing important protected areas for sea turtles in this region. And similar to Atlantic fisheries, Hawaii-based longline fisheries have been regulated to reduce leatherback interactions.
Over the last decade, the Eastern Pacific Leatherback Network, or Red Laúd del Océano Pacífico Oriental ("Laúd OPO") in Spanish, has brought together scientists and conservation practitioners across the Eastern Pacific to compile and synthesize key nesting and fisheries bycatch data to help protect and recover Pacific leatherback sea turtles. The Laúd OPO network initiated a regional bycatch assessment. Based on this information, Laúd OPO has identified the most critical conservation actions to be taken by local and national governments.
NOAA Fisheries is working to minimize effects from human activities that are detrimental to the recovery of leatherback turtles in the United States and internationally. Together with our partners, we undertake numerous activities to support the goals of the leatherback turtle recovery plans, with the ultimate goal of species recovery.
A stranded sea turtle is one that is found on land or in the water and is either dead or is alive but unable to undergo normal activities and behaviors due to an injury, illness, or other problem. Most strandings are of individual turtles, and thousands are documented annually along the coasts of the United States and its territories. Organized networks of trained stranding responders are authorized to recover dead turtles or assist live turtles and document important information about the causes of strandings. These networks include federal, state, and private organizations. The actions taken by stranding network participants improve the survival of sick, injured, and entangled turtles while also helping scientists and managers expand their knowledge about threats to sea turtles and causes of mortality.
The actions taken by stranding network participants improve the survivability of sick, injured, and entangled turtles while also helping scientists and managers to expand their knowledge about diseases and other threats that affect sea turtles in the marine environment and on land.
We observe fisheries to understand the level of sea turtle bycatch and the ways in which turtles interact with fishing gear. We work with partners and industry to develop modifications to fishing gear and/or fishing practices to reduce sea turtle bycatch while at the same time retaining a sustainable catch of targeted species. These efforts include the development of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) for use in trawl fisheries, use of circle hooks and certain bait types in longline fisheries, time and area closures/mesh size restrictions and low profile designs for gillnets, and modifications to pound net leaders.
Food items can be offered in the water (some turtles will eat floating objects) or on the land portion of the habitat. To minimize how often the water needs to be changed and to prevent the tank water from becoming dirty, pet parents can feed their turtle in a separate tank from the main habitat. Turtles dirty the water frequently and will need water changes to keep their space clean and sanitized.
(Note: As of January 2005, Dr. Minling Pan of the NMFS-PIFSC has taken over as lead PI for this project) Progress Reports: FY 2008, FY 2007, FY 2006, FY 2005
Project Overview
This proposal describes research to advance ecosystem-based fishery management by updating previously published economic models for the Hawaii-based longline fishery (HILLF) and by using the updated models to estimate economic returns associated with either current or proposed time/area closure policies. As such, this proposed work should be useful to assess the benefits (i.e., reducing incidental takes of sea turtles) and costs (i.e., fishers' income loss) of management policies. The objective of this project is to incorporate a time/area closure model (K-P model) previously developed to estimate sea turtle takes (Kobayshi-Polovina, 2001a, 2001b) into a multilevel and multiobjective programming model developed in an ongoing PFRP project (MMPM2). This updated model will then be used to estimate economic returns and incidental takes of sea turtles over space and time under existing and potential regulatory policies. Ideally, this model should enable regulators and fishers to develop policies that would direct fishing effort to areas and times that will maximize economic return and minimize protected species interactions. The specific objectives are to:
- Develop an integrated ecosystem database, combining with fishery technical data (logbook and observer's data), market data, and cost-earnings/socioeconomic data;
- Improve the fishing vessel's behavior model of the MMPM2; and
- Incorporate the K-P model's method or more updated one to estimate incidental turtle takes and kills into the MMPM2.
Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) migrate to temperate Canadian Atlantic waters to feed on gelatinous zooplankton ('jellyfish') every summer. However, the spatio-temporal connection between predator foraging and prey-field dynamics has not been studied at the large scales over which these migratory animals occur. We use 8903 tows of groundfish survey jellyfish bycatch data between 2006-2017 to reveal spatial jellyfish hot spots, and matched these data to satellite-telemetry leatherback data over time and space. We found highly significant overlap of jellyfish and leatherback distribution on the Scotian Shelf (r = 0.89), moderately strong correlations of jellyfish and leatherback spatial hot spots in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (r = 0.59), and strong correlations in the Bay of Fundy (r = 0.74), which supports much lower jellyfish density. Over time, jellyfish bycatch data revealed a slight northward range shift in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, consistent with gradual warming of these waters. Two-stage generalized linear modelling corroborated that sea surface temperature, year, and region were significant predictors of jellyfish biomass, suggesting a climate signal on jellyfish distribution, which may shift leatherback critical feeding habitat over time. These findings are useful in predicting dynamic habitat use for endangered leatherback turtles, and can help to anticipate large-scale changes in their distribution in response to climate-related changes in prey availability.
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