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By then the damage was thirty years old and the biology was working against any kind of fast recovery. An alligator snapping turtle does not reach sexual maturity until somewhere between eleven and twenty-one years of age. A female lays roughly twenty-seven eggs per clutch, once a year.

A sea turtle lays a hundred and ten and nests multiple times a season. The average alligator snapper takes thirty-one years to successfully reproduce. The turtles the soup industry pulled out of Southern rivers in 1970 had not been replaced by the year 2000. Many have not been replaced today.

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