Illegal fishing blamed for protected turtle death
An adult female royal turtle, among 21 of the endangered species released into the wild with installed microchips and GPS transmitters in 2015, has been found dead due to illegal electrofishing in Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district. According to the Wildlife Conservation Society on February 16, fishermen found the body of a royal turtle floating along the Sre Ambel river system, an area in Cambodia where the river meets the sea and where some of the turtles call home. The turtle was about 11 years old and weighed nine kilograms, it added. The WCS and the Fisheries Administration inspected the turtle and found it had been killed by illegal electrofishing, based on the marks on its head.
