Trade sanctions sought to stop mass killing of sea turtles in Mexican fisheries

Thousands of endangered loggerhead sea turtles killed yearly in Baja California Sur bycatch hotspot

U.S. conservation groups formally requested trade sanctions against Mexico today to stop the country’s massive loggerhead sea turtle bycatch. Each year Mexican fisheries off the southern Baja California peninsula kill more than 2,000 endangered loggerheads as they fish for halibut and sharks. Today’s petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Turtle Island Restoration Network initiates a legal process that may ban some Mexican imports until Mexico reduces its sea turtle mortality…

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