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 ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— After more than four years of study, the National Marine Fisheries Service today proposed a rule to address sea turtle captures in skimmer trawls, nets used primarily in bays and ...

NEW ORLEANS — A plan to make more shrimpers include sea turtle escape hatches in their nets has been vastly scaled back, federal regulators announced Thursday, potentially contributing to the ...

Reports of those sightings and strandings have been significantly lower, prompting the increase from 30 minutes to 55 minutes for skimmer trawls. There is no tow time requirement for skimmer ...

Instead of requiring the metal grates in three kinds of inshore nets, they'll be required only in the most numerous, called skimmer trawls. And only boats at least 40 feet (12.2 meters) long will ...

Skimmer-trawl operators will not be required to outfit their nets with turtle-excluder devices, following research showing that a majority of the endangered reptiles snagged as bycatch in the ...

A plan to make more shrimpers include sea turtle escape hatches in their nets has been vastly scaled back, federal regulators announced Thursday, potentially contributing to the deaths of more ...

The environmental group Oceana is calling for the federal government to require about 2,400 skimmer trawls to use turtle excluder devices, but the president of the state shrimpers association said ...

The groups on Wednesday notified the fisheries service of their intent to sue, saying the federal agency must require the devices in skimmer trawls, which are used primarily in shallow water such ...

A plan to make more shrimpers include sea turtle escape hatches in their nets has been vastly scaled back , federal regulators announced Thursday, potentially contributing to the deaths of more than 1 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A plan to make more shrimpers include sea turtle escape hatches in their nets has been vastly scaled back , federal regulators announced Thursday, potentially contributing to ...