Several dozen baby turtles of the Caretta Caretta species, or loggerhead turtle, have hatched for 24 hours on the public beach of Fréjus, in the Var, where a female had come to lay in July. “The eggs started to hatch early Wednesday morning. It was people on the beach who gave the report after observing between 10 and 20 small turtles leaving for the sea, ”said Sidonie Catteau, local referent of the French Mediterranean Sea Turtles Network (RTMMF) and responsible project to the Marineland association.
The monitoring teams made up, in addition to the RTMMF, of the French Biodiversity Office (OFB), the city of Fréjus and the Marine Observatory of the local agglomeration community, then, once there, counted in the morning 8 new departures and again 20 in the evening.
Laid July 10
"We will continue our surveillance, because we do not know if there are still eggs that will hatch in the nest, which can count up to 90", specifies Sidonie Catteau. “At one point, it's like a big broth, the turtles all come out at the same time and then it's the race towards the sea, which was 7 to 8 meters distant,” she says.
Laid on July 10 on the beach of Sablettes, in the center of Fréjus, the eggs hatched after only 46 days, while the incubation period is usually estimated between 53 and 67 days.
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