Nettles
- Tag Status
- Active
- Last Date Tagged
- April 3, 2023.
- Gender
- Female
- Tagging Location
- Cumberland, Georgia
Please note: The presentation of data here does not constitute publication, and the researchers who contributed this data retain all intellectual property rights. Map created by Clearwater Marine Aquarium using Google Maps API. Data & Map © CMA. Use of this map or data without permission is prohibited without the written consent of the researcher. This map is automatically updated with new points each day. The manatee icon location point represents the most recent location received for this manatee. If the most recent point is more than two months old, then the manatee most likely lost their tag ending our ability to track their movement.
Nettles’ Story
A ten-foot adult female manatee, named Nettles, was located for an assessment and tagged on April 3, 2023, in Cumberland, GA through the collaborative effort between Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute (CMARI), Georgia Aquarium (GAQ), Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GDNR) and other partners. Nettles received a full health assessment checkup by GAQ veterinarian staff and was outfitted with a GPS satellite tag to closely monitor her travels as part of our manatee Northern Atlantic Coast Manatee Movement study. The project will collect crucial habitat use and health data to help manage threats to manatees that migrate northward into coastal Georgia and the Carolinas during the warmer months of the year. Working in cooperation with state and federal agencies, data collected from this project will also be utilized to gain a better understanding of how manatees are adjusting to the drastic loss of food sources along the east coast of Florida which has been a major contributing factor to the manatee Unusual Mortality Event in recent years.
All manatee work was conducted under USFWS Research Permit # MA37808A-2.