ML17094A286
| ML17094A286 | |
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| Site: | Saint Lucie  |
| Issue date: | 04/01/2017 |
| From: | Weege S - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Download: ML17094A286 (8) | |
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NRR-PMDAPEm Resource From: Steve Weege <steveweege@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2017 3:41 PM To: Meghan Koperski Cc: Ed Hollowell; Jodie Gless; John Jones; Ken Frehafer; Marine Turtle Permit; Michael Bresette; EndangeredSpecies Resource; SCO@dep.state.fl.us; Vince Munne; Cody Mott; Jeff Guertin; Ryan Welsh; debbie.spring@noaa.gov; Eaton, Kristin; Jonathan Gorham; Terri.Taylor@fpl.com; William.Nurnberger@fpl.com; Audra Livergood - NOAA Federal
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[External_Sender] March 2017 FPL Marine Turtle Removal Monthly Report Attachments: March 2017 Marine Turtle Captures.pdf; Monthly Report Notes 2017.pdf; FPL St. Lucie Capture Summary 2017.pdf; Power Plant Causal Turtles.pdf Mrs. Meghan Koperski Tequesta Field Laboratory 19100 SE Federal Highway Tequesta, FL 33469
Subject:
Marine Turtle Removal Monthly Summary March 2017
Dear Meghan,
Attached, please find the monthly summary of marine turtle removals for March 2017. This month, we captured eight (8) Caretta caretta and three (3) Chelonia mydas in the intake canal of the St. Lucie power plant on Hutchinson Island. One sea turtle was sent for rehabilitation and there was one mortality recorded during the month of March. As with all sea turtle strandings at the Saint Lucie Plant (alive or dead), the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) was consulted and a stranding form was filed with the state through the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network.
There was one loggerhead sea turtle sent for rehabilitation for non-causal injuries this month. On March 17th, an emaciated and lethargic subadult loggerhead was removed from the primary 5-inch barrier net. The plastron was deeply sunken in and ventral measurements were not taken due to the animal's condition. The FWC stranding coordinator transported the turtle to the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach for rehabilitation. This stranding was considered non-causal.
There was one non-causal green turtle mortality this month. On March 10th, a moderately decomposed juvenile green turtle was found floating in the intake canal during a routine power plant outage. The scales were sloughing off, there was a reddish purple discoloration of the ventral extremities due to postmortem blood pooling, and the carcass was foul. No other wounds or other abnormalities were noted. The turtle was too decomposed to necropsy; however, FWC was consulted and the animal was judged to have been entrained postmortem.
There was a brief period of severe algae entrainment during the month. Otherwise, the permanent 5-inch barrier net experienced only negligible loads of algae and jellyfish that entered into the intake canal system. Inwater Research Group biologists performed around the clock monitoring of the intake canal for a one week period following the algae intrusion event. Overall, the barrier net has performed as designed and no turtles have been observed beyond the 5-inch net. Bathymetric surveys of the intake and discharge canals were completed in March. Furthermore, the 30-day power plant refueling outage that began in late February concluded towards the end of this month.
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The tag numbers and morphometric data for all turtles captured during the month have been included with this report (see attachments/addendums). Also included is a spreadsheet for all captures, mortalities, injuries, and causal events delineated by species and by month for 2017. In addition, this spreadsheet tracks fresh scrapes incurred on captured turtles for the current month, as well as the entire year. An additional Excel spreadsheet tracks all causal injuries and mortalities incurred by sea turtles at the St. Lucie Plant since 2004.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Sincerely, Steve Steve Weege Sr. Environmental Specialist Inwater Research Group, Inc.
4160 NE Hyline Dr.
Jensen Beach, FL 34957 sweege@inwater.org (772) 349-7252 2
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[External_Sender] March 2017 FPL Marine Turtle Removal Monthly Report Sent Date: 4/1/2017 3:40:53 PM Received Date: 4/1/2017 3:40:59 PM From: Steve Weege Created By: steveweege@gmail.com Recipients:
"Ed Hollowell" <Ed.Hollowell@fpl.com>
Tracking Status: None "Jodie Gless" <Jodie_Gless@fpl.com>
Tracking Status: None "John Jones" <John.Jones@fpl.com>
Tracking Status: None "Ken Frehafer" <Ken_Frehafer@fpl.com>
Tracking Status: None "Marine Turtle Permit" <MTP@myfwc.com>
Tracking Status: None "Michael Bresette" <mbresette@inwater.org>
Tracking Status: None "EndangeredSpecies Resource" <EndangeredSpecies.Resource@nrc.gov>
Tracking Status: None "SCO@dep.state.fl.us" <SCO@dep.state.fl.us>
Tracking Status: None "Vince Munne" <Vince.Munne@fpl.com>
Tracking Status: None "Cody Mott" <cmott@inwater.org>
Tracking Status: None "Jeff Guertin" <jguertin@gmail.com>
Tracking Status: None "Ryan Welsh" <rwelsh@inwater.org>
Tracking Status: None "debbie.spring@noaa.gov" <debbie.spring@noaa.gov>
Tracking Status: None "Eaton, Kristin" <Kristin.Eaton@fpl.com>
Tracking Status: None "Jonathan Gorham" <jgorham@inwater.org>
Tracking Status: None "Terri.Taylor@fpl.com" <Terri.Taylor@fpl.com>
Tracking Status: None "William.Nurnberger@fpl.com" <William.Nurnberger@fpl.com>
Tracking Status: None "Audra Livergood - NOAA Federal" <audra.livergood@noaa.gov>
Tracking Status: None "Meghan Koperski" <Meghan.Koperski@myfwc.com>
Tracking Status: None Post Office: mail.gmail.com
Files Size Date & Time MESSAGE 3278 4/1/2017 3:40:59 PM March 2017 Marine Turtle Captures.pdf 70146 Monthly Report Notes 2017.pdf 54929 FPL St. Lucie Capture Summary 2017.pdf 78198 Power Plant Causal Turtles.pdf 87694 Options Priority: Standard Return Notification: No Reply Requested: No Sensitivity: Normal Expiration Date:
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MARINE TURTLE REMOVALS ST. LUCIE PLANT INTAKE CANAL MARCH 2017 Date Species Note Tag #'s SMCL SSCL CSCL CMCW SMCW SMPL Weight Method (cm) (cm) (cm) (cm) (cm) (cm) (kg) 3/10/2017 Chelonia mydas 1 STW170310-01 55.5 56.1 60.6 52.6 46.1 46.9 22.8 Hand capture 3/12/2017 Chelonia mydas MMA774/MMA775 53.1 53.5 55.5 47.2 40.3 43.7 17.1 South net 3/15/2017 Chelonia mydas MMA776/MMA777 43.5 43.8 45.5 40.6 36.6 35.1 9.0 South net 3/17/2017 Caretta caretta 2 STW170317-02 62.2 63.2 67.0 64.8 51.5 27.0 Barrier net 3/18/2017 Caretta caretta MMA778/MMA779 57.0 58.2 61.6 59.4 51.5 46.3 30.3 North net 3/19/2017 Caretta caretta MMA780/MMA781 68.9 70.1 75.1 72.4 57.7 54.5 48.9 South net 3/26/2017 Caretta caretta MMA782/MMA783 66.5 67.9 70.5 66.6 65.2 54.7 44.6 Hand capture 3/26/2017 Caretta caretta 3 MMA784/MMA785 96.6 97.4 101.4 89.3 71.4 68.9 120.4 South net 3/26/2017 Caretta caretta MMA786/MMA787 59.3 60.5 64.4 63.7 52.5 46.7 35.1 North net 3/28/2017 Caretta caretta 4 MMA768/MMA769 62.5 63.4 67.8 63.9 51.0 47.1 32.2 North net 3/28/2017 Caretta caretta MMA788/MMA789 68.9 70.1 73.3 67.2 56.0 53.4 40.6 South net
NOTES
- 1. DEAD (NON-CAUSAL MORTALITY). Stranding# STW170310-01. Moderately decomposed juvenile green turtle found floating in the intake canal during a power plant outage. Scales were sloughing off, there was a reddish purple discoloration of the ventral extremities due to postmortem blood pooling, and the carcass was foul. No wounds or other abnormalities noted. Too decomposed to necropsy.
Consulted with FWC. Judged to have been entrained postmortem.
- 2. REHAB (NON-CAUSAL). Stranding# STW170317-02. Emaciated and lethargic subadult loggerhead removed from the 5-inch barrier net in the morning. The plastron was deeply sunken in; no ventral measurements were taken due to the animal's fragile condition. The turtle appeared to be moribund.
Moderate fresh scrapes on top of head (skull exposed). FWC transported the turtle to the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach for rehabilitation.
- 3. Adult male. Tail length = 495 mm. Moderate fresh scrape just above nares.
- 4. RECAPTURE. Turtle was removed from the intake canal, tagged and released at Hutchinson Island on 2/24/17 and 3/28/17.
SMCL = Straight Minimum Carapace Length SMCL = Straight Standard Carapace Length CSCL = Curved Standard Carapace Length CMCW = Curved Maximum Carapace Width SMCW = Straight Maximum Carapace Width SMPL = Straight Midline Plastron Length
Loggerheads Green turtles Hawksbills Leatherbacks Kemp's ridley (Chelonia (Eretmochelys (Dermochelys (Lepidochelys (Caretta caretta) mydas) imbricata) coriacea) kempii) Overall Totals Year to Year to Year to Year to Year to Year to Mar-17 Date Mar-17 Date Mar-17 Date Mar-17 Date Mar-17 Date Mar-17 Date Captures 8 34 3 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 47 Causal Mortalities 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Non-Causal Mortalities 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Causal Injuries 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sent to Rehab 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 Fresh Year to Year to Year to Year to Year to Year to Scrapes Mar-17 Date Mar-17 Date Mar-17 Date Mar-17 Date Mar-17 Date Mar-17 Date None 0 7 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 Minor 6 25 3 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 34 Moderate 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 Severe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Percent with Mod/Sev Scrapes 25.0% 5.9% 0.0% 0.0% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 18.2% 4.3%
Injury/MortalityTotals
StLuciePowerPlantCausalTurtles 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 **2017 bySpecies TotalCaptures 623 484 419 227 420 260 295 302 232 302 275 274 316 34 4,463 Loggerhead Injuries 0 1 *3 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 Mortalities 1 0 *21 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 TotalCaptures 286 428 267 101 299 161 444 217 127 197 134 181 159 13 3,014 Green Injuries 0 3 7 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 Mortalities 1 1 1 1 2 0 3 1 2 2 0 4 0 0 18 TotalCaptures 2 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 2 2 0 2 1 0 14 Leatherback Injuries 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mortalities 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TotalCaptures 1 3 3 0 2 0 7 0 0 0 2 7 6 0 31 Kemp'sRidley Injuries 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mortalities 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TotalCaptures 2 2 2 1 4 2 3 2 1 2 3 1 4 0 29 Hawksbill Injuries 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mortalities 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Injury&MortalityYearlyTotals 2 5 32 1 5 3 5 1 3 3 0 4 1 0 65 TotalCapturesperYear 914 917 692 330 725 424 751 521 362 503 414 465 486 47 7,551
- Theloggerheadcausalinjuriesandmortalitiesin2006wereallhatchlings.
- 2017isapartialyear.