Turtles In West Palm Beach

Here's a shot taken Sunday in West Palm Beach, came across one old Loggerhead that lost one of his front flippers.

Gary

Ah Jesus! It really saddens me to see our big loggerhead maimed like that. The number cause for injuries like that is a getting hung up in discarded mono-filament fishing line.

Ah Jesus! It really saddens me to see our big loggerhead maimed like that. The number cause for injuries like that is a getting hung up in discarded mono-filament fishing line.

I didn't think of that one Walt, could it have been a shark?

I didn't think of that one Walt, could it have been a shark?

With the ever increasing number of fishermen and decreasing number of sharks, I think it is much more likely that it was a line...