The Pet Porpoise Pool team have once again used our expertise to nurse back to health an extremely sick Green Sea Turtle when it was rescued and delivered to the Pet Porpoise Pool by National Park and Wildlife Officers recently.
Duan March our Resident Vet said " Given the extent of the injury (fishing line was entangled around the turtle's flipper) being so bad that it was necessary to amputate the left flipper" "Studies have shown that Turtles have been successfully integrated back into the wild on many occassions".
The Green Sea Turtle who has been nicknamed "Crush" (affectionately from the Finding Nemo Movie) will remain in care at the Pet Porpoise Pool with release back into the ocean expected by early December.
Green Sea Turtles are a vulnerable species of harmful marine debris which consists of plastic garbage, discarded fishing lines from recreational and commercial fishers. Marine debris becomes a hazard for all sea creatures.


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