New rule places limits on those who fish for turtles in Florida, but some say softshell turtles in state not in danger

October 29, 2008 By Susan Cocking

William Shockley and his teenage son are fishing for freshwater turtles the same way their family has done it for four generations in south-central Florida: deploying about a mile of nylon line on four sets of buoys holding 1,000 small hooks baited with bits of bacon in the clear, shallow waters of Lake Grassy.

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