Gulf Shrimp Bycatch After BP Spill - Sea Turtle Restoration Project

http://www.seaturtles.org Seeing the bycatch dumped repeatedly onto the deck and scraped and shovel over off the gunnel was a heartbreaking and disturbing sight. Hundreds of juvenile fish of all shapes and sizes, juvenile rays, cuttlefish, squid and spawning blue crabs were injured or killed in the nets and on the deck. Louisiana shrimpers have long defied the federal government and have refused to use required Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) on their trawl nets. Hundreds of sea turtles have died this year in the Gulf this spring and summer, washed ashore with no signs of oil in them but full of shrimp and sediment, solid evidence of drowning in a trawl net. Working undercover I was able to experience first hand the operation of one of the deadliest fisheries to sea turtles in the U.S.

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[shoopwhoopX]

wheres the shrimp? EXACTLY!