TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WTOC) - A sea turtle that was hooked on someone’s bait at the Tybee pier is back in the ocean after folks on the island worked together to release it. Julie Tatum sent us the video.

MAYPORT — The evolution of king mackerel trolling, tackle, boats, baits, tactics and a hundred other things has been an ever-changing story in Northeast Florida over the last 40 years. But, happily, ...

The alligator snapping turtle in this clip has everything he needs to go fishing. The bait is a part of his body, and his lightning-quick ‘snap’ is too fast for most prey to escape from. All he has to ...

FULTON - Two Fulton men have been given citations after a video showing them shooting a box turtle was posted to Facebook. The men later said they were killing the turtle for fishing bait. The video ...

A bait bucket with live crabs hangs into the water from Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina. That’s nothing unusual, but the endangered green sea turtle playing with the bucket is what ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Ten young sea turtles nursed back to health after swallowing anglers’ hooks are headed back into the Gulf of Mexico. The animals released Saturday are among 213 endangered Kemp’s ...

FULLERTON – The scattering of hungry little heads waited expectantly on the pond’s surface as biologist Sara Schuster cast her line into the water. Two turtles fought and tussled as she reeled in the ...

Methods used in wildlife ecology can influence population- and community-level estimates, such as species richness, sex ratio, age and size structure, occupancy and detection probabilities, and ...

WASHINGTON -- A change in fishing technology -- including hooks and bait -- could sharply reduce the accidental catch of sea turtles, the National Marine Fisheries Service said yesterday. The agency ...

Justin Broomhall took a Sunday fishing trip to Lake Cherokee with his father and his son. Little did he know they would make the catch of a lifetime. The Longview, Texas resident hooked a massive ...

A tuna fisherman has taken it upon himself to make the seas safer for sea turtles, animals that are threatened or endangered with extinction worldwide. He’s designed a new hook that he says will make ...