The Marine Mammal Stranding Center is asking the public to keep an eye out for cold-stunned green turtles that have been washing up on Long Beach Island. The turtles are about the size of a dinner plate and weigh a few pounds. Twelve have already been saved by quick-acting residents who have seen them either floating in the water or inert on the shore.

“What happens is the quick change in water temperature stuns them, and if they can’t get their temperature above 50 degrees they die,” explained…