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VENICE, Fla. – A charter boat captain and his passengers sprang into action to save a sea turtle<\/a> that was caught in fishing gear right off the Venice<\/a> Pier.<\/p>\n Venice Pier sea turtle rescue <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Charter Captain John Perry, with Through the Guides, and his customers were on a boat right off the Venice Pier when they spotted a sea turtle caught on a buoy and a trap.\u00a0<\/p>\n The group called the Florida <\/a>Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to try to get the proper authorities to the scene.<\/p>\n Courtesy: John Perry, Through the Guides <\/p>\n Before officials arrived, Perry and his customers worked together to cut the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n They successfully retied the buoy to the line, and the sea turtle swam down into the water.<\/p>\n Boaters help in rescue <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The boaters hung out in the area for another 15 minutes to keep an eye on the turtle.\u00a0<\/p>\n The animal appeared to be good to go, and the charter captain told us the FWC was happy with the outcome.<\/p>\n State wildlife emergency guidelines <\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n FWC did post some tips<\/a> for those who come across a sick, injured or dead sea turtle.\u00a0<\/p>\n You’re asked to call the 24-hour wildlife alert number at 1-88-404-FWCC (3922) to report the turtle.\u00a0<\/p>\n They ask you to stay on site to monitor it and guide FWC officers to the exact location.\u00a0<\/p>\n They also ask you to not remove any deeply embedded hooks or fishing lines yourself.\u00a0<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n At this time, it is unknown how long the turtle had been trapped before the charter boat arrived.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: The information in this story was gathered from a Facebook video detailing the rescue by the charter captain, as well as the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.\u00a0<\/p>\n Venice<\/a>Sea Turtles<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VENICE, Fla. – A charter boat captain and his passengers sprang into action to save a sea turtle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,29,115,4135,554,23845,628,17556,14992],"class_list":["post-286891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-sarasota-county","tag-science","tag-sea-turtles","tag-us","tag-venice","tag-wild-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286891","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=286891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sea-turtle-5.27.jpg\")
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