IMMS welcomes their first big group of visitors since the start of the pandemic
May 12, 2021
In Gulfport, the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies welcomes their first school group of visitors since the pandemic.
An elementary school from Arkansas traveled to.
May 12, 2021
The City of Pascagoula will have a variety of events going on this week regarding the La Pointe-Krebs House and Museum.
Around 1730, Hugo Krebs.
May 12, 2021
There’s a festival happening in Biloxi this Saturday benefiting victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
It’s called the ‘She Said Fest’ and it’ll be.
May 12, 2021
The Vancleave High Class of 2021 is set to talk the stage in just over a week. This fall, the valedictorian is set to.
“Help! I’m fishing and just caught a huge sea turtle. She’s completely swallowed my hook.” We are two veterinarians, Debra Moore, who specializes in sea turtles, and John Thomason, who specializes in internal medicine. This is a call we get a lot in our work with the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network.
Thirty minutes after we received this call, the Sea Turtle Stranding team arrived at the Moses Pier in Gulfport, Mississippi, to find a frantic fisherman standing next to a 65-pound female Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. She was lying on the pier with fishing line coming out of her mouth. After examining the turtle for injuries, the team drove her to the veterinary hospital to see if we could save this turtle’s life.
Dr. Moore is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine. Her major faculty responsibility is working as a veterinarian at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS) on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Her extensive training related to marine mammals, sea turtles and cetaceans, as well as having served as a co-founder of the Caribbean Center for Marine Studies and a relief veterinarian for the Puerto Rico Zoo, make her well-prepared to educate and mentor CVM students rotating through the IMMS.
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Five turtles returned to Gulf after being rehabilitated
April 17, 2021 GMT
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (AP) Five endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles were returned to the sea near Pass Christian Harbor this week after months of rehabilitation.
The turtles were among 18 sent to the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in December after being stranded in Massachusetts, WLOX-TV reports. The other 13 are still being rehabilitated.
More than 1,100 turtles were cold-stunned starting in the fall in New England, where experts say climate change is contributing to such events. Many thousands were cold-stunned off of Texas in February by the winter storm that killed at least 20 people from Texas to the East Coast.
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