After my column about catching snapping turtles appeared in newspapers around the country, I was inundated with information, on which I was so sorely lacking. I learned how to clean turtles ...

The noodling fishing method dates back to the 1700s when Native American tribes would catch catfish by hand in rivers. It’s since evolved and expanded to include snapping turtle noodling and ...

For over a week our host, a typical rawboned "cracker," had been filling our ears with wonderful tales about the huge snapping turtles that floundered about in the oozy green mires or sunned ...

"The only consolation was a very unusual and unplanned catch: a 200-plus-pound alligator snapping turtle," Weston said. "When the turtle took the bait, Kirk had a good idea it was a turtle based ...

A person was caught with live snapping turtles at a Westchester County reservoir after a police investigation revealed they had been illegally catching the animals, officials said. According to ...

It also is legal to catch those turtles with nets, traps and hooks. All that is required is a hunting or fishing license. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources allowed turtle harvesting year ...

A scientist at Arizona State University, Jesse Senko, is working with others to explore adding lights to nets to reduce inadvertently catching turtles. Communities across the South and ...

All the students on the turtle teams for the Wildlife Epidemiology Laboratory receive practical training in techniques needed to investigate wildlife diseases. These include trapping and safely ...

Researchers set out to catch baby turtles in the Gulf of Mexico to tag them and learn more about where they go when they scurry to the sea after hatching. Sea turtles famously lay their eggs in ...