Knowable Magazine reports that new fishing technologies, like lighted nets and pingers, aim to reduce bycatch of marine ...

A repeal of a state turtle-excluder device enforcement prohibition passed Wednesday (April 29) through the state House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. The bill would repeal state ...

A loggerhead turtle escaping a shrimp net through a turtle excluder device. The devices are required by federal law to protect sea turtles in federal waters, and also are required in Louisiana waters.

A turtle excluder device, or TED, sits at lower left in the shrimp net above. (Photo by NOLA.com | Times-Picayune archive) During a Louisiana fisheries summit mainly focused on ways to better market ...

More shrimp fishermen would have to use nets equipped with turtle escape hatches, to prevent sea turtle deaths, under proposed new federal rules. The National Marine Fisheries Service wants to require ...

NEW ORLEANS (KPLC) - The Louisiana Shrimp Association (LSA) has filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) regarding a 2019 rule that ...

Following a campaign by WWF, Turtle Excluder Devices are now compulsory in trawl nets in Mozambique. This will save the lives of some 5,000 marine turtles each year. Maputo, Mozambique - Turtle ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (KLFY) — The Louisiana Shrimp Association has filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service for their rule requiring skimmer trawl vessels to use Turtle Excluder ...

Two organizations say a State Department fisheries certification program designed to ensure international trawlers use sea turtle excluder devices has failed to net bad actors. Two U.S. shrimping ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Shrimp is one of the most popular types of seafood consumed in the United States. Shrimp trawling uses nets towed slowly near the ...

U.S. Coast Guard officials seized and sold about 6,000 pounds of shrimp that had been caught by a boat that was not using federally mandated devices on its nets to prevent the capture and death of sea ...