Clay Davenport
10-12-2005, 11:27 AM
PONCE INLET -- More than 1,200 young sea turtles, who had washed back ashore during the recent stormy weather, were released Monday in seaweed patches several miles offshore.
The green sea and loggerhead turtles had hatched this summer, but were forced back to the coastline by recent tropical storms.
The hatchlings were rescued from Duval, St. Johns, Flagler, Volusia and Brevard counties and had been temporarily housed at Volusia's Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet.
On Monday, county officials, with the help of the U.S. Coast Guard, released the turtles into the seaweed patches found 20 miles offshore.
Link (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/volusia/orl-vbriefs11x_405oct11,0,7885313.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-volusia)
The green sea and loggerhead turtles had hatched this summer, but were forced back to the coastline by recent tropical storms.
The hatchlings were rescued from Duval, St. Johns, Flagler, Volusia and Brevard counties and had been temporarily housed at Volusia's Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet.
On Monday, county officials, with the help of the U.S. Coast Guard, released the turtles into the seaweed patches found 20 miles offshore.
Link (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/volusia/orl-vbriefs11x_405oct11,0,7885313.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-volusia)