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Summary of sea turtle stranding data documented by NOAA Galveston in the Gulf of Mexico from 1989-01-05 to 2015-12-27 (NCEI Accession 0159757)

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This data contains records pertaining to all sea turtles recovered by the NOAA Galveston Laboratory as the local representative of the Southeast Fisheries Science Centers Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network STSSN. The data includes morphometrics at the time of stranding, species and condition of the sea turtle at the time of stranding and documentation of tags present. It also contains information on the geographic location of the stranding.

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0159757 ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - CAUSE OF DEATH ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS biological data LATITUDE LONGITUDE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION

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title Summary of sea turtle stranding data documented by NOAA Galveston in the Gulf of Mexico from 1989-01-05 to 2015-12-27 (NCEI Accession 0159757)

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