Green turtle rescued from fishing net poops out all kinds of human trash

By Laura Geggel - Associate Editor 19 hours ago

This sea turtle likely ate the trash thinking it was food.



After getting tangled in a fishing net, this green turtle was brought in for rehabilitation.
(Image: © Fundación Mundo Marino)

The phrase "what goes in … must come out" took on a literal meaning for a green turtle that had gobbled up human trash, only to poop it out later with help from a veterinarian.

The green turtle (Chelonia mydas) was initially found tangled in the net of Roberto Ubieta, a fisherman from San Clemente del Tuyú, a town on the Atlantic coast of Argentina. Ubieta, who had received training from the Mundo Marino Foundation on how to help marine reptiles trapped in fishing nets, immediately got to work aiding the turtle.

But when Ubieta brought the animal to the rescue center of the San Clemente institution on Dec. 29, veterinarians there realized that the turtle had other immediate health problems.

A few days after arriving at the center, the turtle began pooping out trash, including fragments of nylon bags and hard plastics.

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