Michelle Pate answered a 3 a.m. phone call. Even before speaking, she knew it was about a dead turtle. She also knew how it died.
Only the dredge crew called in the middle of the night.
Pate works for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, and her phone serves as a sort of dead sea turtle hotline. On that day — May 6, 2021 — it rang once before dawn and four more times before dusk. Eventually, she drove to the docks of Charleston Harbor. A crew member handed her coolers filled with dismembered sea turtle parts…
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