Press of Atlantic City: Illegal turtle trade plagues South Jersey marshes
Story by: Press of Atlantic City
N.J. Division of Fish and Wildlife Photo
To the trained eye, it was clear Kevin Courts and Michael Riff were illegal terrapin harvesters.
The Hatboro, Pennsylvania, men, one shirtless, were parked next to a marsh off Sea Isle Boulevard last July, with six nets and a long pole leaning against their green truck, the state said. A conservation officer who approached them spotted a turtle crawling under the driver’s side seat and found a cooler packed with hatchlings.
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