{"id":254460,"date":"2026-05-01T20:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:33:05","slug":"boaters-for-turtles-urges-slower-speeds-during-nesting-seasaon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254460\/","title":{"rendered":"Boaters for Turtles urges slower speeds during nesting seasaon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 1, 2026 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.fsu.edu\/news\/expert-pitches\/2026\/04\/28\/qa-with-fsu-professor-on-reducing-impact-of-boat-strikes-on-sea-turtles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Boaters for Turtles<\/a>, a St. Petersburg-based community initiative, is working with local partners to encourage boaters to slow down in voluntary sea turtle protection zones during nesting season (May-August). A 2025 Florida State University-led study found that one in four sea turtles found dead or injured in Florida waters were struck by boats, with 98% of those collisions fatal.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 1, 2026 &#8211; Boaters for Turtles, a St. Petersburg-based community initiative, is working with local partners to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-254460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}