Grant: 15-036C
Project Title: Large Animal Scale for Stranded Sea Turtles
Project Manager: Secret Holmes
Organization: Gulf World Marine Institute (Non-Profit Organization)
Grant Amount: $5,410.00
Completion Date: 2016-01-27
Summary: Gulf World Marine Institute, Inc. staff responds to live stranded sea turtles
along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in Florida Panhandle. GWMI will purchase a large animal
scale that will not be damaged by salt water. This scale will be used to weight larger sea turtles
that come into rehabilitation that do not fit on the standard scale that is being used at this time.
Through this project, operations that benefit both State and Federal sea turtle program goals will
be enhanced.
Results: Since purchasing the scale, GWMI has used the scale to weigh 10 turtles. A few of these animals were
extremely large and would have previously not been able to be accurately weighed without using the
marine mammal scale. With accurate reliable weights better treatment and correct medication
administration has occurred.