but most relate to adults or juveniles with carapaces N 20 cm long. The
only data on post-hatchling ingestion are from Florida (Witherington,
1994, 1998, 2002), east Australia (Boyle and Limpus, 2008) and a few
animals from the Azores (Frick et al., 2009). Post-hatchling turtles are particularly
susceptible to plastic ingestionbecause theydriftat theoceansurface
and tend to co-occur with floating seaweed and other debris along
drift-lines at downwelling fronts (