From Times of Malta
A 20-year-old turtle was released back into the sea in Golden Bay on Friday morning following ten months of medical treatment after it was found with a fishing hook stuck in its mouth and a fishing line trapped in its stomach.
Yvonne, an adult male loggerhead turtle, was rescued by a fisherman in Marsalforn last September and taken to environmental NGO Nature Trust Malta for treatment, in a bid to save its life.
A tangled fishing line was wrapped around it, a fishing hook was stuck in its mouth and it had ingested part of the fishing line, which was trapped in its stomach.
“We found it was also undernourished. It wasn’t eating because the fishing line was causing discomfort in its stomach,” Nature Trust Malta CEO Vince Attard explained.
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