New rule places limits on those who fish for turtles in Florida, but some say softshell turtles in state not in danger
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 08:36
in Biology & Nature
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.