After holding meetings last summer to discuss requiring turtle excluder devices in all shrimp boats that fish with skimmer trawls -- equipment used primarily in shallow water, such as Louisiana's ...

The lawsuit filed Thursday in Washington claims the National Marine Fisheries Service violates the Endangered Species Act by letting some shrimpers operate without required turtle excluder devices ...

have designed and fabricated an indigenous Turtle Excluder Device (TED) to suit the trawlers' fishing nets. The US ban, which was imposed citing the non-fixing of TEDs on trawler vessels ...

The ban was imposed in 2019 on the grounds that Indian trawler vessels were not using Turtle Excluder Devices and that the devices in use did not meet the US National Marine Fisheries Service ...

Louisiana shrimpers are suing the Biden administration over a rule that would require them to use turtle excluder devices on their nets closer to shore. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District ...

(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 Devices in ...

if they operate without using Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs), which was made mandatory in 2017. More than 1,000 Olive Ridley turtles have washed ashore dead in Chennai and nearby coast alone ...

Shrimp trawl nets must soon have turtle excluder devices. Every year, thousands of turtles get trapped in fishing nets and eventually drown, as they cannot surface to breathe. One way to stop this ...

(KPLC) - Louisiana shrimpers are not giving up their fight. The Louisiana Shrimpers Association is suing the Biden Administration over the required use of turtle excluder devices inshore, saying it ...