Diagram of a turtle excluder device (TED). Courtesy of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority. NOAA Fisheries is reconsidering whether to require the devices on boats shorter than 40 feet ...

Diagram of a turtle excluder device (TED). Courtesy of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority. The rule now in effect was scaled back considerably from the original, which would have ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service included this diagram of a turtle-excluder device or TED in a 2019 Environmental Impact Statement to Reduce the Incidental Bycatch and Mortality of Sea Turtles in ...

The U.S. government was ready to adopt netting rules that would save up to 2,500 turtles a year, according to a new federal complaint, but the scaled-back plan it went with covers only a fraction of ...

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 5, 2014 file photo, Andrea Hance, Texas Shrimp Association executive director, poses with a TED, or turtle excluder device, on board a shrimp boat at the Brownsville ...

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.

A Turtle Excluder Device (TED) is a simple grid of deflector bars installed before the narrow end of a trawl net. Small animals such as shrimp slip through into the net, while larger fauna are ...

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 ...

Maputo, Mozambique - Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) are now compulsory in trawl nets in Mozambique, after yesterday's approval of a new Regulation for Marine Fisheries by the country's Council of ...