'We were really excited to find evidence that the Mid-Atlantic Bight serves as a major foraging ground for leatherbacks migrating,' researcher Chris Sasso said.
Researchers have found new feeding grounds for endangered leatherback sea turtles along central parts of the U.S. East Coast.Before this discovery, scientists knew that the turtles migrated between their feeding grounds in the waters off Nova Scotia and New England in the summer and their breeding grounds off the Mid- and South Atlantic Bights in the colder months, but they weren't sure where they went in between and what they did there.
According to the paper, the turtles were seen to be performing feeding behavior off the coast of New England during the late summer, which is expected, as this is when some of the turtles' favorite prey is in abundance.However, they also found that the turtles were feeding a lot further south than anticipated, in Delaware Bay and Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, in the waters of the Mid-Atlantic Bight.
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