For Immediate Release, May 5, 2021 Contact: Maya K. van Rossum, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, 215-369-1188 x 102, [email protected] Delaware Urged to Ban Commercial Trapping of Wild Turtles Unlimited Numbers of Snapping Turtles Can Currently Be Caught, Sold DOVER, Del.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Delaware Riverkeeper Network petitioned the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control today to end commercial collection of the state’s common snapping turtles. Under current state law, turtle trappers can legally collect unlimited numbers of common snapping turtles to sell domestically or export for food and medicinal markets. “The commercial harvest of turtles is always unsustainable and bad for our rivers,” said Tamara Strobel, a staff scientist at the Center. “It’s time for Delaware to step up and add its name to the growing list of states that have banned commercial turtle trapping, which threatens the very existence of our beloved turtles.”