Yoshi The Rehabilitated Loggerhead Turtle Making Progress

"12 May 2018 Yoshi appears to be enjoying her time along the Angolan coast and has travelled about 200km north since the previous update. This is a straight line distance - she has been zig-zagging a lot along the way. Last week she was approximately 30 kilometres offshore in warm 28°C deep water, but she [...]

February Captain’s Log – Hooked on Africa Fishing Charters Cape Town

Well, good day all! January’s come, February’s gone and March/ April and May are ahead of us, traditionally these 3 months are PRIME TUNA TIME. If the reports are correct, very good tuna are on the bank off Namibia and good catches of big Longfin Tuna 300 nm North of here. We’ve been getting [...]

Where in the world is Yoshi the Loggerhead Turtle 64 days after release?

18 February 2018 Hi everybody – herewith the latest Yoshi update. Yoshi has been back in the ocean now for 64 days, and she is making great progress up the West Coast. She has traveled 1860 kilometres already. She is currently about 130 km offshore from the Hardap region of Namibia. She is actually in [...]

By |2020-02-06T06:19:25+00:00February 22nd, 2018|Categories: Turtle Release, Yoshi The Loggerhead Turtle|Tags: , |

Yoshi The Turtle released by Hooked on Africa

A few weeks ago, we were asked by the Two Oceans Aquarium if we could assist them in releasing Yoshi, the big turtle that has been living at the aquarium for the past few years. After Yoshi was prepped for the big day, we took the team out to sea and found the perfect [...]

By |2020-02-06T06:19:26+00:00January 16th, 2018|Categories: Turtle Release, Yoshi The Loggerhead Turtle|Tags: , |

Released Hawksbill Turtle Tracking – Feb Update

Both Hawksbill turtles are still transmitting nicely. Otto is slowly creeping further north along the inshore coast of Mozambique. Winston has also started a sudden surge of northward movement from the 10th of this month. He's been travelling distances of 10-15 nautical miles everyday and is now approximately 69 nautical miles west of Hondeklip Bay. Can't [...]

By |2020-02-06T06:19:27+00:00February 16th, 2016|Categories: News, Turtle Release|Tags: , |

Another Turtle Release Yesterday Thanks To Two Oceans Aquarium.

In a continued effort to support the good Turtle Rehabilitation work done by Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, we released more turtles into the deep blue ocean off Cape Coast this week. Earlier this month we released several turtles one of which we have tracked to currently be situated off Mossel Bay heading north to [...]

By |2020-02-06T06:19:27+00:00December 18th, 2015|Categories: News, Turtle Release|Tags: , |

Hooked On Africa Releases Sea Turtles in conjunction with Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town

Hi to all concerned, this was a big day for us at HOOKED ON AFRICA, we normally take out of the OCEAN, today it was our turn to put back, Hugely Gratifying! We released 49 young Loggerhead Turtles, & Green Turtles into the ocean off the cost of Cape Town. Thanks to TWO OCEANS AQUARIUM [...]

By |2020-02-06T06:19:28+00:00December 1st, 2015|Categories: Fishing, Turtle Release|Tags: , |
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