Report: Refusal to Ban Trapping Threatens Turtles in Nine States, Enables Illegal Trade CHARLESTON, S.C. — Nine states still allow unlimited commercial harvesting of some or all native turtle species, ...

SHEFFIELD, Iowa — Using a long pole with a hook on one end, Eric Eckhardt grabs a partially submerged mesh trap and hauls it out of a farm pond. Inside are a small soft-shell turtle and a 12-pound ...

BATESVILLE (KATV) — Last year over 50,000 turtles were harvested from Arkansas waterways through commercial turtle trapping efforts. It's a number several conservation groups are petitioning to bring ...

Several conservation groups have petitioned the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to ban the trapping for sale of the state's wild turtles. The conservation groups cited concerns that unlimited ...

COLUMBUS — Life-long Platte County resident Lee Rupp has been trapping turtles for use in area turtle races for more than 30 years. The veteran turtle wrangler has enjoyed his tag-along apprentice — ...

TABOR, Ia. — Amber Sharp insists that trapping turtles isn’t so much an art form as it is an exercise in common sense. You need to keep an air pocket in the top of the trap so the turtles can come up ...

Biologists have been trapping turtles in southern areas of New Hampshire this summer as part of a five-state, three-year study to help figure out why some species are in decline.There are over 300 ...

After 20 years of trying to phase out commercial turtle trapping in Minnesota, lawmakers have banned the practice. Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation May 24 that outlaws commercial turtle trapping ...

More than 860 turtles have been caught, captured and rescued from the moatlike lake in front of the Phoenix Zoo over the course of nearly 20 years. Only three actually have belonged and were placed ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Trapping turtles for profit will soon be a thing of the past in Minnesota. Starting next January, commercial harvesting of the state's wild turtles will no longer be legal. It's a move ...