There is a guy at Spirit Lake, Iowa that buys and buchers turtles, mainly snapping and spinney softshell turtles. He has 6 people working full time just buchering. They go through thousands and thousands of turtles a year. These turtles are destined for oriental customers. I asked him if he sees many very large individuals. He said that they are extremely rare because trapping has remove the large ones long ago.

Norm Kopecky