{"id":197368,"date":"2026-02-28T01:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/197368\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:35:11","slug":"porkchop-the-3-flippered-sea-turtle-goes-home-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/197368\/","title":{"rendered":"Porkchop the 3-flippered sea turtle goes home \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was <a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/climate-environment\/porkchop-the-sea-turtle-goes-home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">originally published by LAist<\/a> on Feb. 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Topline: Porkchop, a three-flippered green sea turtle\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/climate-environment\/porkchop-green-sea-turtle-aquarium-of-the-pacific-conservation\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that was rescued nearly a year ago<\/a>\u00a0after becoming severely entangled in fishing line and debris in the San Gabriel River, was released back to the wild Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A long turtle lineage:\u00a0Dubbed \u201cPorkchop\u201d by aquarium staff due to her hefty appetite, the young female green sea turtle represents one of seven sea turtle species worldwide (six of which occur in U.S. waters). These animals have called our oceans home since at least the time of the dinosaurs \u2014 about 110 million years ago,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/news\/june15\/sea-turtles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">according to NOAA<\/a>. All species of sea turtles found in the U.S. are listed as either endangered or threatened and are protected by the Endangered Species Act.<\/p>\n<p>Porkchop\u2019s healing journey:\u00a0Aquarium vets had to amputate Porkchop\u2019s right front flipper after tangled fishing lines severely cut off her blood flow. She also had a fishing hook removed from her throat. First rescued after being spotted in the San Gabriel River by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aquariumofpacific.org\/conservation\/sea_turtle_monitoring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">volunteers with the aquarium\u2019s sea turtle monitoring program<\/a>\u00a0last March, her healing journey took nearly a year. She now swims and eats as well as her four-flippered kin and after a final physical exam, blood sample and X-ray, vets determined she was ready to return to her wild roots. She also now has a microchip, so if she ends up stranded again, scientists will know it\u2019s her.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the Aquarium\u2019s sea turtle rehab program <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/long-beach-aquarium-doubles-the-size-of-its-sea-turtle-rehab-center\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article was originally published by LAist on Feb. 27, 2026. Topline: Porkchop, a three-flippered green sea turtle\u00a0that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-197368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}