Turtle Excluder Device (TED) fitted to a trawl net to stop turtles drowning

http://www.scubazooimages.com Turtles shown escaping from trawl nets fitted with TED's. Thousands of turtles are caught and drown each year in trawl nets. Turtle Excluder Devices or TED's can be fitted so that Turtles and other large marine mammals can escape. This film was shot and edited by Scubazoo for the Marine Research Foundation & Conservation International.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Marine conservation
• marine research foundation
• TED
• Turtle Exclusion device
• bycatch reduction device
• BRD
• environment
• Green turtle
• chelonia mydas
• turtle conservation
• fisheries conservation
• mengalum
• pulau mengalum
• trawling
• destructive fishing practices
• fishing methods
• trawl net
• Sabah fisheries department

[peentho]

can fishes come out too? looks like it can. but what a great design!

[ScubazooVideo]

@peentho Only large marine life will make it out through the TED. Smaller fish and target species such as prawns will stay in the trawl net.

[ryubent]

there are no pointless animals. they have their own roles in nature

[infinitytat]

you should never handle a sea turtle, and if you are going to, you should never pick it up by its flippers, they are dislocated pretty easily

[garyeong]

such a brilliant design