January 3, 2016 — For the first time since the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary started rescuing endangered cold-stunned sea turtles in 1982, the sanctuary recovered living cold-stunned turtles in January, according to a statement from the sanctuary.
Usually, the season ends by Christmas.
Since November, rescuers with the sanctuary have recovered 520 turtles from Cape Cod Bay beaches, making it the second-highest stranding year on record.
Last year, 1,200 turtles were stranded, according to the release. The vast majority of turtles that strand here are Kemp’s ridleys, which are born on beaches in Mexico and Texas.
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