{"id":19698,"date":"2021-04-14T01:44:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T01:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/turtle-trapped-in-ghost-fishing-net-saved\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T01:54:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T01:54:46","slug":"turtle-trapped-in-ghost-fishing-net-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/en\/turtle-trapped-in-ghost-fishing-net-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtle trapped in &#8220;ghost&#8221; fishing nets is saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1>Sea Turtle trapped in &#8220;ghost&#8221; fishing nets is saved<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"f-30\">&#8220;We thought it was dead&#8221;,said Geiner Golf\u00edn, a Cocos Island park ranger.<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teletica.com\/nacional\/salvan-a-tortuga-atrapada-entre-redes-de-pesca-fantasma_283349\" rel=\"nofollow\">Original story from Teletica.com <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Officials from Cocos Island National Park and researchers rescued a turtle caught in \u201cghost\u201d fishing nets (see attached video). Geiner Golf\u00edn, a park ranger, confirmed that it was having trouble breathing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They found the animal while monitoring pelagic predators (they live far from the coast) on board the FAICO II.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u201cWe found a drifting object. At first, we thought that this object was a log. Later, when we got closer, we realized that there were drift nets, what we normally call \u2018ghost fishing\u2019. The turtle was trapped there&#8221;, explained Golf\u00edn.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>&#8220;We thought it was dead. When we got closer, we realized it was alive, and that&#8217;s when we<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>tried to release it,&#8221; <\/i>he added<i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Statement by Geiner Golf\u00edn, Cocos Island park ranger:<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x80iogo\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teletica.com\/nacional\/salvan-a-tortuga-atrapada-entre-redes-de-pesca-fantasma_283349\" rel=\"nofollow\">Original story from Teletica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:30px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>In the attached video, it is possible to see everyone\u2019s effort to cut the nets that entangled the turtle.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the park rangers, researchers from the University of Costa Rica, the National University, and officials from the Fire Department participated.<\/p>\n<p>The following images, recorded underwater, show the exact moment when the turtle was released, and it could continue its journey.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 640,000 tons of fishing gear are lost at the bottom of the oceans every year, which represents 10% of the total waste that humans deposit in the seas.<\/p>\n<p>These materials, in addition to becoming entangled in the propellers of the boats, can cause interaction with endangered species (sharks, turtles, birds and marine mammals), which die when trapped.<\/p>\n<p>From FAICO, we also take the opportunity to invite you to read an interesting article by Andrea Montero Cordero, about \u201cPlastic in the sea. Do we throw our effort overboard?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19698"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19706,"href":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698\/revisions\/19706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocosisland.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}