Screws of storm Arwen in Wales towards the end of November saw a Kemp Ridley turtle who was later christened Tally find a cold shore. Still, no one knows how the turtle, which is native to the Gulf of Mexico, traveling more than 4,000 miles, ended up in Wales.
This kind of turtle is very endangered and in the early eighties for instance there were less than 200 breeding females in the whole world. It is characterized by a nearly perfect spherical shell and they are rather large with weights of about 40 kg over 2ft.
It is believed to be somewhere around 9,000 nesting females at present and has improved greatly from what it was in the 1980s. Still, they are threatened by extinction in broader populations as a result of excessive hunting of their eggs.
Turtle Tally in Recovery and Hoping to Return Home
Ashley James, who first saw Tall on the beach, was sure that it was not conceived to stay in Wales and at first believed that it was no longer alive. Due to this kind of find, he decided to inform local officials and they assisted him in controlling the situation.
Having been disturbed by the effects of Storm Arwen, Ashley was now aware that Tally was not dead but in a state of cold shock since she ran to the beach. This is quite the opposite of what most marine biologists do where they put the turtle under extreme heat once in a while depending on the intensity Ashley had explained that the marine biologist had told her that putting a lot of heat into Tally is not advisable but a gradual increase of the temperature of the turtle is a sign that it will stand a better chance of surviving.
Instead, Tally was taken to another brand-new incubatory called the New Futures_workspace built for a particular purpose at the Anglesey Sea Zoo where it is existing the ‘stable and small signs of recovering’.
This makes the treatment of cold shock very hard as the water levels are very different; the average in the Gulf of Mexico is 30 degrees while in Wales it is only 8 degrees during this time of the year. Tally is, however, with the Zoo and isn’t on display since they are in the process of nursing it back to full health. Much is expected since the young man, Tally, is now conscious and with a fair chance of regaining his normal health and being as fit as to be taken back 4,000 miles home.
Therefore conservation plays an important role in Anglesey Sea Zoo. They operate several conservation and education programs including the Crawfish Research program which is on the restoration of the Crawfish fishery in Wales, a type of European spiny lobster. According to the source, the fishery was reduced due to wrong management and non-sustainable usage of the fish stocks.