{"id":2833,"date":"2011-05-17T16:56:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2011-05-17T16:56:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:56:35","slug":"kemp%e2%80%99s-ridley-sea-turtle-nesting-season-is-here-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/05\/17\/kemp%e2%80%99s-ridley-sea-turtle-nesting-season-is-here-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemp\u2019s Ridley Sea Turtle Nesting Season is Here Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2839\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/05\/hatchling-285.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2839 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/05\/hatchling-285.gif\" alt=\"Kemp's Ridley Hatchling\" width=\"228\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kemp&#039;s Ridley Hatchling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kemp\u2019s ridley sea turtle nesting season is here again, and I&#8217;m happy to report that nest numbers are well on their way to beating last year\u2019s number!\u00a0 While the Kemp&#8217;s ridleys have the lowest population of all sea turtles, they have begun a huge come back in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Until half a century ago, tens of thousands of Kemp\u2019s ridleys would surge onto Mexico\u2019s Gulf of Mexico beaches in a few large nesting events each year to lay their eggs. At the turn of the 20th century, turtle meat and eggs became popular delicacies, causing the turtle\u2019s population to crash.\u00a0 Later, accidental catches in fishing gears kept their population down.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/pais\/naturescience\/strp.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a> about the turtle\u2019s history and steps taken in recent years to help the Kemps ridleys population recover.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Kemp&#8217;s ridleys are rebounding due in part to protections that government, fishing industry and EDF and other conservation groups helped win.\u00a0 In Mexico, the numbers are up from 700 in 1985 to more than 12,000 nests in 2010.\u00a0 In Texas, the nests have climbed from 1 in 1978 to a high of 197 in 2009 due to extraordinary steps taken to establish a secondary nesting site at Padre Island National Seashore.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s total already stands at 85 nests (in just eighteen days of recording findings) and is on track to surpass last year\u2019s number.\u00a0 Check back at the end of the summer for an update!\u00a0 At this time, it is hard to know what impacts the BP oil disaster may have had on the population.\u00a0 Kemp\u2019s ridleys don&#8217;t return to nest until after the age of seven years old, so the fate of last year\u2019s hatchlings will remain unknown for several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/05\/hatchling-285.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kemp\u2019s ridley sea turtle nesting season is here again, and I&#8217;m happy to report that nest numbers are well on their way to beating last year\u2019s number!  While the Kemp&#8217;s ridleys have the lowest population of all sea turtles, they have begun a huge come back in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/05\/17\/kemp\u2019s-ridley-sea-turtle-nesting-season-is-here-again\" \/>Read the full post &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5724,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[72531,529,560],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulf-of-mexico","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-kemps-ridley","tag-sea-turtles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kemp\u2019s Ridley Sea Turtle Nesting Season is Here Again - EDFish<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/05\/17\/kemp\u2019s-ridley-sea-turtle-nesting-season-is-here-again\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kemp\u2019s Ridley Sea Turtle Nesting Season is Here Again - EDFish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kemp\u2019s ridley sea turtle nesting season is here again, and I&#039;m happy to report that nest numbers are well on their way to beating last year\u2019s number! 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