Sea Turtle Eggs Taken From Sand; 4 Arrested

State wildlife officers staking out a beach arrested four people and confiscated more than 1,000 eggs deposited there by rare sea turtles.

The eggs were retrieved too late to save them, a state Game and Freshwater Fish Commission official said Saturday. He said some people collect sea turtle eggs to “sell them as food and as an aphrodisiac.” The four were charged with unlawful possession of eggs of the marine turtle, an endangered species.