ML18102B096
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| Site: | Saint Lucie  |
| Issue date: | 04/12/2018 |
| From: | Weege S - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Division of Materials and License Renewal |
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1 NRR-DMPSPEm Resource From:
Steve Weege <steveweege@gmail.com>
Sent:
Thursday, April 12, 2018 8:40 AM To:
Meghan Koperski Cc:
Ed Hollowell; Jodie Gless; 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; William.Nurnberger@fpl.com; Audra Livergood - NOAA Federal; Ryan Chabot
Subject:
[External_Sender] March 2018 FPL Marine Turtle Removal Monthly Report Attachments:
March 2018 Marine Turtle Captures.pdf; Monthly Report Notes 2018.pdf; FPL St. Lucie Capture Summary 2018.pdf Mrs. Meghan Koperski Tequesta Field Laboratory 19100 SE Federal Highway Tequesta, FL 33469
Subject:
Marine Turtle Removal Monthly Summary March 2018
Dear Meghan,
Attached, please find the monthly summary of marine turtle removals for March 2018. This month we captured eight Caretta caretta and 40 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 during the month of March; both of these strandings were classified as non-causal. 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 stranding forms were filed with the state through the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network.
One adult loggerhead was sent to a rehabilitation facility for non-causal injuries this month. On March 18th, an emaciated and lethargic adult male loggerhead was hand-captured shortly after entering the intake canal. The turtle was missing 65% of its right rear flipper from a mostly healed old injury. Inwater Research Group biologists transported the turtle partway to the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach for rehabilitation.
There was one non-causal mortality this month. On the morning of March 19th, a moderately decomposed juvenile green turtle was found floating on the permanent 5-inch barrier net. It was rigid and bloated with no obvious external injuries (most likely entrained postmortem). After consultation with FWC, this turtle was determined to be non-causal.
No necropsy was performed due to the advanced state of decomposition.
The primary 5-inch barrier net encountered light-to-moderate amounts of algae during the month of March. A scheduled short-term power plant outage began mid-month. Consequently, flow rates in the canal system have abated considerably. In addition, baseline water levels in the intake canal have risen due to the reduced flow rates, as some of the circulation pumps were powered down for the outage. Even still, the new barrier net has performed as designed and no turtles have been observed beyond the 5-inch net.
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 2018. In addition, this spreadsheet tracks fresh scrapes incurred on captured turtles for the current month, as well as the entire year.
2 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
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"Ed Hollowell" <Ed.Hollowell@fpl.com>
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Tracking Status: None "Vince Munne" <Vince.Munne@fpl.com>
Tracking Status: None "Cody Mott" <cmott@inwater.org>
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Tracking Status: None "Ryan Welsh" <rwelsh@inwater.org>
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MARINE TURTLE REMOVALS ST. LUCIE PLANT INTAKE CANAL MARCH 2018 Date Species Note Tag #'s SMCL SSCL CSCL CMCW SMCW SMPL Weight Method (cm) (cm) (cm)
(cm)
(cm)
(cm)
(kg) 3/3/2018 Caretta caretta 1 MML376/MML377 55.7 57.3 61.9 59.0 48.5 43.8 29.7 North net 3/4/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY059/MMY060 61.8 62.2 66.2 57.0 48.5 51.3 28.9 North net 3/5/2018 Chelonia mydas 2 MMY061/MMY062 50.5 50.8 55.5 49.7 42.0 41.8 18.1 North net 3/5/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY063/MMY064 46.4 47.5 49.5 41.2 35.8 38.7 11.7 North net 3/6/2018 Caretta caretta MMY065/MMY066 64.1 65.6 68.8 62.2 53.3 51.5 39.4 South net 3/6/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY067/MMY068 38.1 38.2 40.5 35.5 31.4 31.0 8.0 South net 3/6/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY069/MMY070 48.0 48.6 50.9 47.6 39.8 40.5 13.6 North net 3/7/2018 Chelonia mydas 3 MMY071/MMY072 56.7 57.0 59.5 54.4 45.9 49.6 25.8 South net 3/7/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY073/MMY074 37.9 38.1 40.8 36.2 30.9 30.5 7.0 North net 3/11/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY075/MMY076 34.6 34.7 36.6 31.2 27.3 27.1 4.6 Hand capture 3/11/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY077/MMY078 31.3 31.5 33.9 27.9 24.5 26.6 4.0 Barrier net 3/12/2018 Caretta caretta MMY079/MMY080 57.3 58.3 63.0 61.4 48.5 45.7 28.6 North net 3/12/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY081/MMY082 41.5 41.6 43.6 39.5 33.5 33.8 9.4 North net 3/12/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY083/MMY084 45.4 45.6 47.7 40.8 34.0 36.9 11.2 North net 3/12/2018 Chelonia mydas 4 MMY085/MMY086 53.5 53.5 56.3 51.8 44.1 44.3 20.0 North net
Date Species Note Tag #'s SMCL SSCL CSCL CMCW SMCW SMPL Weight Method (cm) (cm) (cm)
(cm)
(cm)
(cm)
(kg) 3/14/2018 Chelonia mydas 982000402166761 26.3 26.5 28.0 23.4 21.1 22.1 2.2 South net 3/14/2018 Chelonia mydas 5 MMX221/MMX222 37.4 37.5 39.8 32.6 27.9 29.5 6.7 South net 3/14/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY087/MMY088 47.5 47.7 50.4 43.1 35.7 39.9 12.9 South net 3/14/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY089/MMY090 47.2 47.3 51.2 45.2 36.5 38.6 14.7 South net 3/15/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY091/MMY092 52.9 53.2 56.8 50.2 41.9 44.5 19.5 South net 3/16/2018 Caretta caretta 6 MMY093/MMY094 87.5 88.4 93.4 84.4 66.1 64.4 83.1 South net 3/16/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY095/MMY096 42.4 42.7 45.2 41.1 34.1 34.8 10.1 South net 3/16/2018 Caretta caretta MMY097/MMY098 65.3 66.3 71.8 69.2 56.8 50.2 39.1 South net 3/16/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY099/MMY100 33.7 34.3 36.6 34.2 30.0 28.2 5.5 Dip net 3/16/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY101/MMY102 39.5 39.7 43.1 38.4 32.4 32.6 8.7 South net 3/18/2018 Caretta caretta 7 MML376/MML377 56.3 57.2 61.4 59.0 48.2 44.2 29.4 South net 3/18/2018 Caretta caretta 8
STW180318-01 85.6 87.2 94.0 83.5 63.2 62.1 63.2 Hand capture 3/19/2018 Chelonia mydas 9 JRG180319-01 26.8 27.0 28.2 26.5 21.6 22.8 2.2 Barrier net 3/20/2018 Chelonia mydas 982000402162625 27.0 27.2 27.9 24.7 22.1 22.7 2.6 Dip net 3/20/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY103 28.4 28.6 30.3 27.3 23.3 24.1 3.2 Dip net 3/20/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY104 27.4 27.8 29.5 25.1 22.4 22.3 3.0 Dip net 3/20/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY106/MMY107 42.8 42.8 44.6 37.2 32.7 34.4 8.8 Dip net 3/20/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY108 29.6 30.0 32.0 26.1 22.9 23.9 3.4 Dip net 3/20/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY109/MMY110 68.9 69.4 73.3 64.9 52.3 56.1 40.0 South net 3/22/2018 Chelonia mydas 10 MMY111 45.2 45.4 49.4 41.6 33.2 36.9 11.6 South net
Date Species Note Tag #'s SMCL SSCL CSCL CMCW SMCW SMPL Weight Method (cm) (cm) (cm)
(cm)
(cm)
(cm)
(kg) 3/22/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY112/MMY113 50.5 50.7 53.4 48.7 41.5 41.0 16.7 Dip net 3/22/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY114/MMY115 43.0 43.4 45.5 40.5 34.9 36.6 10.0 South net 3/22/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY116/MMY117 42.0 42.2 44.1 39.7 34.5 35.0 9.7 South net 3/23/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY118/MMY119 32.3 32.5 34.6 30.5 26.0 25.9 5.0 Dip net 3/23/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY120/MMY121 31.6 31.7 33.6 29.5 25.8 25.6 4.4 Hand capture 3/23/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY122/MMY123 35.5 36.1 38.0 32.5 28.3 29.1 5.9 Dip net 3/23/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY124 28.3 28.6 29.9 25.9 23.1 23.1 2.9 Dip net 3/24/2018 Chelonia mydas 11 MMX448/MMX449 55.9 56.0 58.4 51.5 43.1 46.8 23.1 South net 3/25/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY125 26.5 26.6 28.3 24.4 21.5 21.6 2.6 South net 3/26/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY126 31.6 31.7 34.4 27.5 24.0 25.4 3.8 Dip net 3/29/2018 Chelonia mydas MMY127/MMY128 43.6 43.9 46.0 41.5 34.7 35.5 8.9 South net 3/31/2018 Chelonia mydas 12 MMX322 60.4 60.7 63.2 59.5 48.4 49.0 29.4 South net 3/31/2018 Caretta caretta MMY130/MMY131 58.6 60.5 63.7 62.1 51.2 45.8 31.3 South net
NOTES
- 1. RECAPTURE. Turtle was removed from the intake canal, tagged and released at Hutchinson Island on 7/14/17, 8/24/17, and 3/3/18.
- 2. PAPILLOMAS (Balazs Tumor Score = 2 {moderate}, Total Tumor Score = 31).
- 3. RECAPTURE. Turtle was removed from the intake canal, tagged and released at Hutchinson Island on 6/1/08, 10/13/11, and 3/7/18.
- 4. RECAPTURE. Turtle was removed from the intake canal, tagged and released at Hutchinson Island on from 10/13/11, and 3/12/18.
- 5. RECAPTURE. Turtle was removed from the intake canal, tagged and released at Hutchinson Island on 1/10/18, and 3/14/18.
- 6. Adult male. Tail length = 464 mm. Soft, concave plastron.
- 7. RECAPTURE. Turtle was removed from the intake canal, tagged and released at Hutchinson Island on 7/14/17, 8/24/17, 3/3/18, and 3/18/18.
- 8. REHAB (NON-CAUSAL). Stranding# STW180318-01. Adult male. Tail length = 367 mm.
Emaciated and lethargic adult male loggerhead hand-captured shortly after entering the intake canal.
Turtle missing 65% of right rear flipper from a mostly healed old injury. Inwater Research Group biologists transported partway to the Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Juno Beach for rehab.
- 9. DEAD (NON-CAUSAL MORTALITY). Stranding# JRG180319-01. Moderately decomposed juvenile green turtle found floating on 5-inch barrier net in the morning. The turtle was rigid and bloated with no obvious external injuries (most likely entrained postmortem). After consultation with FWC, this turtle was determined to be non-causal. No necropsy was performed due to the advanced state of decomposition.
- 10. PAPILLOMAS (Balazs Tumor Score = 2 {moderate}, Total Tumor Score = 1).
- 11. RECAPTURE. Turtle was removed from the intake canal, tagged and released at Hutchinson Island on 4/24/14, 1/8/16, 1/26/18, and 3/24/18.
- 12. RECAPTURE. Turtle was removed from the intake canal, tagged and released at Hutchinson Island on 7/10/02, 9/27/03, 6/19/06, 7/8/06, 8/16/06, 10/24/11, 5/24/13, 2/6/14, 1/20/18, and 3/31/18.
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
Mar-18 Year to Date Mar-18 Year to Date Mar-18 Year to Date Mar-18 Year to Date Mar-18 Year to Date Mar-18 Year to Date Captures 8
69 40 201 0
0 0
0 0
10 48 280 Causal Mortalities 0
0 0
5 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
5 Non-causal Mortalities 0
0 1
2 0
0 0
0 0
0 1
2 Causal Injuries 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 Sent to rehab 1
4 0
5 0
0 0
0 0
0 1
9 Fresh Scrapes Mar-18 Year to Date Mar-18 Year to Date Mar-18 Year to Date Mar-18 Year to Date Mar-18 Year to Date Mar-18 Year to Date None 0
7 2
127 0
0 0
0 0
0 2
134 Minor 7
61 38 71 0
0 0
0 0
10 45 142 Moderate 1
1 0
3 0
0 0
0 0
0 1
4 Severe 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 Percent with mod/sev scrapes 12.5%
1.4%
0.0%
1.5%
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 0.0%
2.1%
1.4%
Hawksbills Leatherbacks Loggerheads Green turtles (Caretta caretta)
(Chelonia mydas)
Overall Totals Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii)
(Eretmochelys imbricata)
(Dermochelys coriacea)