Sea Turtle in Black Sea! 2009

On 07.12.2009, A female green turtle, Chelonia mydas, was bycaught alive in the turbot bottom gill nets, around 1,5 mile off the coast of Yakaören village and unfortunately it died the next day.

Photos: http://www.haber37.gen.tr/

Bayram Öztürk, Arda M. Tonay, Aylin Akkaya, Ayaka Amaha Öztürk, Ayhan Dede Stranding of a Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758), in the Turkish Black Sea. Zoology in the Middle East 52, 2011: 115-117.