Props a deadly threat to Sound’s loggerheads

NORWALK — Experts are stunned by the toll that boats are taking on loggerhead sea turtles in Long Island Sound after a fourth turtle, its shell crushed by a boat prop, was discovered recently at Silver Sands State Park in Milford. Two other loggerheads that met the same fate washed ashore July 15 and Aug. 29 on Long Beach in Stratford, and another was discovered on Norwalk’s Sheffield Island on Aug. 9. “It’s frustrating to keep having to say this, but we urge boaters to be aware that sea turtles are in the Sound at this time of year, and thus to watch where they’re going,” said David Hudson, research scientist for The Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk.

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