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travel guide of Kuchino-erabu island

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 Activity at Miura Port (Green Sea Turtle)


If you visit Kuchinoerabu-jima Island during the summer, you may see 3 or 4 green sea turtles that inhabit the offshore area around Miura fishing port.



Offshore area of Miura Fishing Port








You may swim and touch them if you'd be lucky. You can see the turtle (whose name is Jane) is missing it's front left flipper.





The Kuchino-Erabu Senior Group is engaged in research and protection activities to protect such beautiful sea turtles and their habitat.
We are currently trying to identify individual turtles and monitor their presence at Kuchinoerabu-jima. This will allow us to determine if their turtles are visitors or residents of Kuchinoerabu-jima.
The individual turtles were identified by comparing the pattern difference of the turtle shell using with their photo copies.


Table Green Sea Turtles found in Miura Port (2011-2014)

  Name of Turtles  Year and Month* (Number in ○ shows the month. )
before 2011 2012 2013 2014
Jane
(missing a front left flipper)
Islanders found Jane in 2011. ⑥ ⑪ ① ⑦ ⑧ 
Tatsu  ⑪ ⑫ ⑥ ⑧
Midare ① ⑧ ⑥
Hato  ⑥ ⑦
Yakko33
Kubi2 ⑧ ⑩
Razor ⑦ ⑧
Nagare
N Reverse
Yakko55
Golf
Buchi

* Year and Month when the individual turtles were found.

As you can see in the above table, a number of turtles have been living in the area for several years.


 Activity at Mukae-hama beach



On the Mukae-hama beach in the May-September, you will see the footprints of sea turtles. If you walk in the early morning, you might be lucky and come across spawning sea turtles.

In order to protect sea turtles, Erabu Senior Group is engaged in research and protection activities.









Table  Landing and spawning of sea turtles at Mukae-hama beach

Date Landing and spawning in 2014
 3 Aug The observation was stopped by the eruption of the volcano.
22July Landing#56(Spawning#41)
18July L#53(S#38)、L#54S#39)、L#55(S#40)
17July L#50、L#51、L#52
16July L#48、L#49
15July L#46、L#47(S#37)
10July The sea sand of Mukae-hama beach was lost because of big waves caused by Typhoon 8th. The most of spawning nest were lost.
9July L#45S#36)、Green Sea Turtle
4July L#44S#35)
3July L#43S#34)
2July L#42S#33)
1July L#39S#32)、L#40、L#41
30June L#37、L#38S#31)
29June L#31S#26)、L#32S#28)、L#33S#29)、L#34、L#35S#30)、L#36
28June L#29、L#30(S#27)
17June L#28(S#26)
15June L#24S#21)、L#25S#22)、L#26S#23)、L#27(S#25)
14June L#23S#20)
13June L#22S#19)
12June L#19S#17)、L#20S#18)、L#21
11June L#17S#15?)、L#18S#16)
9June L#16S#14)
29May L#14S#12)、L#15S#13)
28May L#12S#10)、L#13S#11)
26May L#9、L#10S#8)、L#11S#9)
25May L#8S#7)
23May L#7S#6)
12May L#5S#4)、L#6S#5)
11May L#4S#3)
7May L#3S#2)
3May Landing#1、Landing#2Spawning#1)



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