Friday, July 7, 2006

Sea turtles return to Florida after 3 years of tests

The loggerheads' release ended a three-year saga that saw the turtles, which are a threatened species, kept in captivity so others could swim free; they were raised by federal fisheries scientists to test a turtle excluder device in shrimpers' nets - July 7, Orlando Sentinel

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