November 9, 2014 — The Massachusetts Audubon Society rescued nine very cold Kemp’s ridley turtles, a critically endangered species, in Cape Cod Bay over the weekend.
The turtles were taken to the New England Aquarium’s Animal Care Center in Quincy for rehabilitation from hypothermia, said Tony LaCasse, an aquarium spokesman.
The weekend rescues brought the aquarium’s current number of turtles in its care up to 11. LaCasse pointed to that as a sign the turtle numbers would be normal this year despite low numbers of hatched sea turtles.
“The number of eggs from the nesting season was disappointingly low this year,” he said. “We’ve been debating whether there would be a lot of turtles this season or not. The folks who bet on low numbers are starting to sweat a little.”
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