She recommends households with children under 13 don't get turtles of any kind, because of the health risk and because kids often become bored with the animals, leading many turtles to be abandoned. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prohibits the sale of live turtles with a carapace of less than four inches in length, although smaller turtles may be exported. Also, many of the turtles out in the spring are females moving to their nesting grounds. Turtles may not be taken at any time (or during periods specified) in certain areas. Commercial taking is defined as the taking, possession, collection, transportation, purchase or sale of five or more individual turtles or terrapins, or any part thereof, per person in any given year. A hobbyist permit that is obtainable from the NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife, is required to do so. Can you put nail polish on a turtle shell? This project calls upon the public, who may have inherited or unknowingly purchased tortoiseshell, to surrender their items to assist in scientific research on this species. (a) Hunt, fish, or take any wildlife in this state by any means or manner; (b) take any wildlife in this state for sale, exchange or other commercial purposes; (c) possess any seine, trammel net, hoop net, fyke net, fish gig, fish spear, fish trap or other device, contrivance or material for the purpose of taking wildlife, Missouri River Cooter (Pseudemys concinna metteri), Mississippi Mud Turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis), Gulf Coast Smooth Softshell (Apalone mutica calvata), Gulf Coast Spiny Softshell (Apalone spinifera aspera), Mississippi Diamondback (Terrapin Malaclemys terrapin pileata), Pallid Spiny Softshell (Apalone spinifera pallida), Pascagoula Map Turtle (Graptemys gibbonsi), Sabine Map Turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica sabinensis), Western Chicken Turtle (Deirochelys reticularia miaria), White Lipped Mud Turtle (Kinosternon leucostomum), Northern Diamondback (Terrapin Malaclemys terrapin terrapin), Eastern Mud Turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum), Northern Red-bellied Cooter (Pseudemys rubriventris), Illinois Mud Turtle (Kinosternon flavescens spooneri), New Guinea softshell turtles Carettochelyidae, Central American river turtle Dermatemydidae, Northwestern Pond Turtle (Emys marmorata marmorata), Arizona Mud Turtle (Kinosternon arizonense), Sonora Mud Turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense), Rio Grande River Cooter (Pseudemys gorzugi), Sonoran Mud Turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense), Snapping Turtles Chelydra serpentina 20, Pond Slider Trachemys scripta 20 (Pecos river and its tributaries unlimited elsewhere), Yellow Mud Turtle Kinosternon flavescens 20, Sonoran Mud Turtle Kinosternon sonoriense 5, Eastern spiny softshell (Apalone spinifera spinifera), Stripeneck musk turtle (Sternotherus minor peltifer), Carolina Diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin centrata), Eastern Chicken Turtle (Deirochelys reticularia), Florida Cooter (Pseudemys floridana floridana), Northern Diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin terrapin), Stripeneck Musk Turtle (Sternotherus minor peltifer), Mississippi Mud (Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis), Eastern Chicken Turtle (Deirochelys reticularia reticularia), Gulf Coast Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone spinifera aspera), Big Bend Mud Turtle (Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi), Guadalupe Spiny Softshell (Apalone spinifera guadalupensis), Rio Grande River (Cooter Pseudemys gorzugi), Sabine Map Turtle (Graptemys ouachitensis sabinensis), Texas Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin littoralis), The captured reptile or amphibian is released within 30 days of capture, The animal is released only at the exact location where it was captured, The animal was not housed with any other reptiles or amphibians during its time in captivity.
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