SINGAPORE - Kayak fishing tour guide Mohammad Nordin Kasmuri was on a fishing trip in the waters off Changi when one of his customers' lines got stuck in an"extremely heavy" net on Wednesday afternoon .
Immediately, he contacted marine conservation non-profit Marine Stewards, which alerted the authorities."I thought maybe it was alive so I cut the net as fast as I could to get its head up to the surface so it could breathe, that's when I noticed it was already dead," he told The Straits Times.The kayakers stayed on to hand the turtle to the Police Coast Guard, which passed the carcass to the National Parks Board for checks.
The group has recorded four cases of turtles being trapped in gill nets in waters off Changi over the past year, she said. He noted that the net which killed the dead turtle was likely to be active because there was no seaweed or marine growth.
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