Loggerhead Marinelife Center's Coastal Classroom

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Key Vocabulary Words

Review these key terms from Loggerhead Marinelife Center's Virtual Coastal Classroom Lesson to help you find the answers and unlock our favorite photos of Intrepid!

Species: a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding

Bycatch: the unwanted fish and other marine creatures caught during commercial fishing for a different species

Entangle: to become twisted together with or caught in

Wild-caught: fish caught in an ocean, river, or other natural bodies of water

Farmed: fish raised in tanks, irrigation ditches, and ponds
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What species of sea turtle is Intrepid?
Green sea turtle
Loggerhead sea turtle
Leatherback sea turtle
Kemp's ridley sea turtle
Hawksbill sea turtle
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Intrepid is a Kemp's ridley sea turtle!The species Kemp's ridley is named after Richard Kemp, a fisherman interested in natural history and submitted the original type specimen from Key West, Florida. (Image credit: Loggerhead Marinelife Center)
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Why was Intrepid brought in to The Sea Turtle Hospital at Loggerhead Marinelife Center?
Fishing line entanglement
Shark bite
Plastic ingestion
Boat strike
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Intrepid arrived at Loggerhead Marinelife Center on February 22, 2020 for fishing line entanglement!Intrepid is a subadult Kemp's ridley sea turtle patient that had monofilament (fishing line) entangled around its neck and right front flipper, causing constriction injuries. (Image credit: Loggerhead Marinelife Center)
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What does entanglement mean?
To be unintentionally struck by a boat
To become twisted together or caught in
To eat discarded trash in the ocean
To have an unknown injury to its carapace (shell)
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Entanglement means to become twisted together or caught in.Unintentional boat strikes, trash ingestion, carapace (shell) injuries, and entanglement are common problems that we see in the sea turtle patients that come in to The Sea Turtle Hospital at LMC. (Image credit: Loggerhead Marinelife Center)
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What does the term bycatch mean?
the unwanted marine creatures caught during commercial fishing for a different species
to become twisted or caught in
the name of a sea turtle's shell
the way in which sea turtles catch their food
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Bycatch refers to the unwanted marine creatures caught during commercial fishing for a different species.Elwyn is a juvenile Loggerhead sea turtle that was found entangled in a fishing net. This patient arrived in our hospital in March 2015. (Image credit: Loggerhead Marinelife Center)
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In which ways can sea turtles become affected by fisheries?
Ingestion of a hook
Caught as bycatch in commercial fishing
Entanglement in fishing line
Ingestion of monofilament, or fishing line
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All of the above!Sea turtles, and other marine animals, can become affected by fisheries through hook and fishing line ingestion, entanglement, and can also be caught as bycatch in commercial fisheries. (Image credit: Loggerhead Marinelife Center)
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How can you help reduce the impact of fisheries?
Buy sustainable seafood
Buy seafood locally
Eat sustainable seafood
Buy dolphin safe tuna
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You can help reduce the impact of fisheries by buying and eating sustainable seafood, such as dolphin safe tuna, and by buying your seafood locally. Image credit: (Loggerhead Marinelife Center)
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