Reel Threat: How Recreational Fishing Endangers Freshwater Turtles

Monday, March 27, 2017 - 12:32 in Biology & Nature

Swallowed fishhooks are a deadly and unexplored threat to freshwater turtles, and a new study is the first to estimate the impact of fishhook deaths on turtle populations.

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