The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission had banned the harvest of all local wild turtles for commercial purposes in 2009.
However in Lakeland Florida, wild life officials were forced to charge three men illegally selling, harvesting and buying 2100 pounds of fresh water turtles. The illegality was justified in the rationale that people should be able to see freshwater turtles in the wild and harvest them on a recreational basis rather than commercially.
According to Lt. George Wilson investigators in Polk and Seminole counties caught these mean poaching turtles. The turtles were to be sold illegally to a farm in Okeechobee. Thus, the men were charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors.
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Christopher Hall completed his studies at the California Institute of Technology, Caltech, with a degree in Engineering and Applied Science. That was three years ago. At present he is working as a Computation and Neural Systems engineer in Ontario. He used to write tech reviews and overviews for several small online publications before he joined the ArgyllFreePress team. Christopher is always scouring the internet for fresh tech news and anything related to gadgets, smart-phones, tablets and laptops.
