Overfishing: Oceans Are Dying

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US fisheries kill 4,600 sea turtles per year: Study PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:54

Photo: Flickr/Raam DevImproved fishing nets have saved tens of thousands of endangered sea turtles in recent years, but 4,600 are still dying annually, mainly in Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawls, said a US study on Wednesday.

Turtle-excluder devices (TEDs), or large holes that allow the creatures to escape from nets that nab smaller marine creatures, have helped cut back on sea turtle deaths up to 94% since the 1990s, said the report in the journal Biological Conservation.

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