Public comment period begins for court ordered NOAA proposal designed to protect sea turtles from certain trawling activities

NOAA’s Fisheries Service is accepting public comment on a proposed rule requiring turtle excluder devices (TEDs) for skimmer, pusher-head, and wing-net shrimp trawls in Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic shrimp fisheries.

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