A turtle traveled from Mexico to Japan in 9 years A turtle, which has captured at the Mexican ocean nine years ago for the purpose of survey and has stocked after tagged, founded off the coast of Japan last week. It was a wild loggerhead turtle, a kind of sea turtle, and the place was close to Muroto city, Kochi prefecture, Japan. According to the conference that surveys the turtles, that was the second occurrence of a wild loggerhead turtle crossing the Pacific Ocean. Last month on the 27th, the fisherman who caught the turtle contacted the Moroto Haiko Aquarium. According to the aquarium, there was a metallic plate on the right side of the turtle's flipper. On the plate, the turtle's ID number was written and the label indicated that the turtle was tagged by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). The aquarium contacted some foreign researchers to inquire, then they discovered that it was a turtle from the Mexican ocean. In nine years, traveling more than 10 thousand kilometers it had grown 30 cm. Since the tag was digging at its body, the aquarium changed the metallic plate to a larger one in order to continue monitoring the turtle. According to the Japanese Sea Turtle Conference, which is concerned with protecting sea turtles, this is the second occurrence internationally where a sea turtle has crossed the Pacific Ocean. Translated by itako999 from a Japanese news article: https://newswebeasy.github.io/news/web/2018/07/02/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B3%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E9%AB%98%E7%9F%A5%E3%81%B8-%E3%82%A6%E3%83%9F%E3%82%AC%E3%83%A1-%E5%A4%AA%E5%B9%B3%E6%B4%8B%E3%82%92%E6%B8%A1%E3%82%8B-9%E5%B9%B4%E3%81%8B%E3%81%91%E3%81%A6/