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 ...

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 ...

D'IBERVILLE, Mississippi -- A hearing on a proposed rule to require turtle excluder devices on shrimp skimmer trawls brought four comments Wednesday at the L.H. "Red" Barnett Senior Center. The ...

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.

Over a decade ago, around 2,000 turtle excluder devices had been provided to fishermen but there is big question mark over whether they were actually used.”Mohammad Moazzam Khan, ...

READ:Florida Senate takes up 'public disorder' bill amid controversyBefore the TED, or turtle excluder device, was invented, around 2,000 sea turtles would die a year after being caught in ...

She said officials with either state or federal agencies are looking into whether the turtle excluder devices were removed in the fishermen's' haste to gather the catch. "I know it's being ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More shrimp fishermen would have to use nets equipped with turtle escape hatches, to prevent sea turtle deaths, under proposed new federal rules released on Thursday.

KARACHI, Nov 24 A demonstration to create awareness of the use of a modified version of 'turtle excluder device' (TED) was held at the Marine Fisheries Department on Wednesday.