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Loggerhead with line-entangled flipper - photos above and below.
Loggerhead with heavy-gauge line ingestion.
X-ray reveals a hook at the end of the ingested line.
Loggerhead post-amputation.
Surgery to remove hook & line.
Loggerhead with plastic ingestion.
Post-op success
Hawskbill turtle with line-entangled flipper.
Same hawskbill turtle showing serverely enlarged or swollen flipper due to entanglement.
Out of Sight Doesn't Make it Right!
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Sea turtle entangled and dead in a fishing net
Photo Credit: Eric Leong/Marine Photobank
Photo Credit: Eric Leong/Marine Photobank
Turtle dead from consuming plastic and other debris. (Inset shows debris removed from the digestive tract.) Photo Credit: Lance Morgan, Australian Seabird Rescue/Marine Photobank