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

October 29th, 2008 in Biology /

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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