Captive loggerhead releases from SeaWorld San Diego

Scott Eckert, WIDECAST

This dataset includes telemetry data of loggerhead sea turtles that were released from SeaWorld San Diego after 30+ years captive. SeaWorld San Diego had a large population of loggerheads that were either placed in the facility on its establishment from Atlantic stocks, or were brought to the park for rehabilitation (from Pacific stocks). After genetic evaluation, Pacific origin turtles were release from offshore and immediately return to or towards their natal waters in Japan. Three of the turtles were recaptured in Japan by fishers and released alive. One recapture had a full health assessment and appeared to be gravid. Of that were released from San Diego, one moved down the west coast of Mexico and its signal was lost. This turtles had been misidentified as Pacific stock, as was actually Atlantic stock.

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Records with no date/time were deleted.
Argos raw data are included in the downloaded zip file.

The dataset has been updated over time as outlined below. Each entry includes the version number, release date, type of change, and a short description.

Overview

This section explains attributes included in the original dataset. OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only. Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downloadable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission.

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)	Description
oid	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
ptt_id
date_gmt	Date at GMT
time_min
hrs
obs_date	Date
loc_time_hrs
obs_time	Time
lc	Argos LC
lat1	Latitude in decimal degrees
long1	Longitude in decimal degrees
lat2	Argos LAT2
long2	Argos LONG2
notes	Notes
species	Species scientific name
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
obs_count	Number of animals (always 1) added by OBIS-SEAMAP
sex	Sex
ccl	Curved carapace length (CCL)
scl	Straight carapace length (SCL)
ccw	Curved carapace width (CCW)
scw	Straight carapace width (SCW)
pitt
flipper_tag_right	Tag ID on right flipper
flipper_tag_left	Tag ID on left flipper
descriptions
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP