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Hook
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Disappointing news from BOLA
Reported by Abraham on the mexfish.com website, apparently someone stole four live turtles from the turtle sanctuary during Semana Santa week.
That's a lot of weight to steal without anyone seeing it. 
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Yum Yum ?
I sure miss the days when Sea Turtle was available everywhere.
Tasty.
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Natalie Ann
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That is sad news, Hook.
And you MrB.... bad dog! Back to your corner. 
Nena
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Crusoe
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This is very sad news. Turtles are one of the worlds most facinating and amazing creatures, and also one the most defense'less. ++C++
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Hook
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I had turtle once back in the 80s at a new years dinner/party in BOLA at Casa Diaz. Mama was still cooking I believe and Papa was still around.
Toughest piece of meat I ever chewed on.
But the turtle soup was good.
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Back in the late 60's early 70's ,being a kid, I would wander around back at Hotel Serinidad where they would keep 10 to 20 sea turtles laying on
their backs for the restaurant. Their flippers would flap a little and they would make a little moaning sound. I watched as they butchered one .
These memories haunt me a little to this day. I am a fisherman though , so I do kill fish occasionally, but only enough for dinner.
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I remember seeing one on it's back in the mid 60's at Campo Lopez. I can still see the tears running out of It's eyes, very sad. I could never kill or
eat one, doesn't matter how it tastes. Guess it goes back to my childhood when we had a desert tortoise as a pet.
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"Turtles are one of the worlds...most defense'less."
but...what about cows???
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One of the goals of the folks at this year's turtle conference in Loreto is to make the Loreto Marine Park a reserve where turtles will not be
harvested.
Good luck with that. Turtle remains popular here year around.
Oh, it's already illegal to harvest turtles? Imagine that.
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Hook
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
"Turtles are one of the worlds...most defense'less."
but...what about cows??? |
SAVE THE COWS........SAVE THE COWS !!!!!!!!
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That's really sad to steal the turtles from such a site.
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Tasty Turtle
I suppose I was lucky. The first Sea Turtle steak I ate was at Alfonsina's back in 1973. It was Fresh, Tender and delicious. After that initial
experience, I've eaten many decent meals and some that were not. I've even purchased it (long ago) at the Calimax and prepared it myself. It didn't
seem tough to me.
I've also bought bad meals of Beef, Fish, Fowl and Pork. One experience isn't enough to judge by.
Too bad they can't be commercially produced.
Yum Yum.
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Let's hope that the "bad guys" were really "good guys" and that the turtles were turned loose in the bay and are now happily planning to start
families, find a new line of work, etc.
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Hook
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I'm pretty sure that all the turtles in there are eventually returned to the sea.
But the timing of this right before Semana Santa has me doubtful it was done by the guys in the white sombreros.
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Not all would agree
| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
I'm pretty sure that all the turtles in there are eventually returned to the sea.
But the timing of this right before Semana Santa has me doubtful it was done by the guys in the white sombreros. |
There are those in the know (no, not me) that would say that the place is more like a zoo than a research center.
And, that the captives should be returned to the sea much more quickly than generally happens.
Sadly, I suspect that you are correct and they are not among their families....
(First time I ever ate turtle steak was at the Dias' table in early 70's, on a pre-run for the 1000- it was wonderful!!)
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I still have some amazing 35mm slides of a huge turtle laying eggs on the beach between CSL and SJdC back in the mid 80's when there was still much
open beach....
I was totally in awe, and still remember that late night / early morning experience.
I would never kill or condone the killing of one of these magnificant creatures.
I think I could, however take a hard rubber hose to a selfrighteous burro who KNOWS better, but doesn't care about their plight because "it tastes
good". Or because they are defenseless.... Ranks right up there with child molesters in my book....
Its all just stuff and some numbers.
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don't harm a "turtle" but take a rubber hose to another human being..
meee theeenks you are need of a priority re-set.
save the piping plover, save the seals but keep your damn kids and grandkids off the beach!!
wadda mind set. George Purrman
\"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men\" Plato
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First had Turtle at Papa Diaz place at the BGay of Los angeles in 1968, again at the Bismark 2 in La Paz and then several times aat San Nicholas. All
prepared the Mesicano Way. Later learned that Papa Diaz went to Jail after being Caught witha Truck Load going to Market.
Can anyone verify if he did if fact serve 3 years in Jail??
Later at San Giorgio on the Pacific I observed many Turtles brought in with the Meat going to La Paz at $50 a Turtle.
Later when the Law came in to effect, a Pangaero caught with a Turtle his Panga was taken from Him.
I will never forget the anguish Cry of 3 large Turtles tied up on the Beach. I have not had Turtle Since.!
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"don't harm a "turtle" but take a rubber hose to another human being..
meee theeenks you are need of a priority re-set."
You think human beings are superior to turtles? More important? Human beings are AMONG all the animals that deserve a home and life on our earth;
each has a purpose and contributes to the richness of the sublime ecosystem that could be ours to experience. But no. Human beings, with their
infinite stupidity, egotism, ignorance and human fallacies, continue to degrade their world with every act diminishing species, numbers, habitat, etc.
I think you're the one who needs to reset priorities. Turtles stolen and killed from a turtle sanctuary? I guess you think a safari hunt at the zoo
would be a good idea too? Aside from the obvious crime of theft, I think it bespeaks of new lows of human selfishness. Don't get me started.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by 805gregg
I can still see the tears running out of It's eyes, very sad. I could never kill or eat one, doesn't matter how it tastes. |
Found out recently that the tears are the turtle's way of maintaining salt balance in it's system. Apparently their intake of salt is greater than it
should be and this is their way of maintaining the proper levels.
Now I wonder if there's an explanation for crocodile tears.  I'll bet there
is.
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