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TX Turtles End up in Chinese Soup Pots
MaxPeterson
Jul 23, 2007 08:50 AM
Replies (6)
lbenton
Jul 23, 2007 09:52 AM
What are all the practiced methods out there to trap turtles? I think that things can be done to moderate or stop this level of take in Texas, but I am not up to speed on all the commercial collectors high impact methods of trapping turtles.
What are the ways that you know of that they are being trapped?
One plan is to have us, as a herping community, help to draft regulations to limit or stop this type of high impact trapping.
But the first step is to understand how commercial collectors ply their trade...
You can email me if you would rather not post..
LanceBenton AT sbcglobal DOT net
Lance
gratefuldead
Jul 25, 2007 12:53 PM
I trap turtles for herp studies here in Kansas from time to time...One productive way to trap them is by hoop net.
Here's a pic of one...
http://www.bugspray.com/pictures/products/hoop.jpg
But the most effective way that I've seen is by Fike Net. These nets actually spread across the entire "creek" and then draw the turtles into the traps similarly to how a drift fence would work.
Hope that helped.
mred
Jul 23, 2007 09:55 AM
you can't move a tortoise or box turtle off the road to save it's life, but some guy with three teeth and a wife he's genetically related to can make a fortune milking the natural habitat of the state of Texas. it all makes sense now.
Joe Forks
Jul 23, 2007 05:42 PM
according to Bob.
If Bob is correct, then TX HB 2414 protects 1% of the Turtles, at the expense of 99% of the Herpers.
MaxPeterson
Jul 24, 2007 12:27 AM
Yeah, & the majority of it is owned by a bubba who shoots the turtles "cuz they eat the fish". Probably non-native, introduced
(by TP&W)fish at that!
We're going to hell in a hand-basket(Turtle-trap).....
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"How the hell do you find a Heloderma in a snowstorm?"
mred
Jul 24, 2007 12:00 PM
private or public really shouldn't matter in an instance such as this - still wholesale destruction of a natural resource to put a few bucks in someones pocket. if it were a cuddly little rabbit or one of Uncle Walt's other talking animals, the public would be in an uproar.
