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Topic: 4600
Fisheries Kill 4600 Sea Turtles Year Study
September 15, 2011

US fisheries kill 4,600 sea turtles per year: study

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Improved 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 ...

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