“It’s devastating, with the price of fuel and the turtle excluder devices.

The first turtle excluder device was called the Georgia Jumper.

But "turtle excluder devices" used in Queensland are still not mandatory everywhere.

Turtle excluder devices for nets and other traps reduce the number being accidentally caught.

As the largest living sea turtles, turtle excluder devices can be ineffective with mature adults.

This plan of action represents significant improvements in the use of turtle excluder devices by its fishing industry.

The installation of turtle excluder devices on some Australian trawlers has benefited this species.

We still need to field-test the surveys about turtle excluder devices, so we get to do it all again very soon.

The fishermen will have to use turtle excluder devices in their nets, which allow turtles to escape before they drown.

A rule was passed several years ago requiring shrimp fisheries to use nets with turtle excluder devices, Meylan said.

Turtle excluder devices have been implemented in efforts to reduce mortality by providing an escape route for the turtles.

A turtle excluder device is a barrier in the narrow neck of a shrimper's funnel-shaped net.

As they are the largest sea turtles alive today, turtle excluder devices can be ineffective with adult leatherbacks of a particular size range.

The shrimpers complain that too much of their catch escapes with the endangered turtles because they have to use the turtle excluder devices.

His current duties include protecting sea turtles by making sure fishing fleets worldwide are utilizing turtle excluder devices.

In the early 1980s government scientists and shrimpers worked to reduce this threat, which resulted in the invention of the turtle excluder device.

One mechanism used to protect turtles from fishing nets is the turtle excluder device (TED).

More dangerous are unintentional threats, including boat strikes, fishermen's nets that lack turtle excluder devices, pollution and habitat destruction.

Lastly, enforcing the use of turtle excluder devices in the shrimp trawling industry has also proved effective in some areas.

The case concerned a ban by the US on imports of all shrimp and shrimp products not caught with turtle excluder devices.

In 1987, the United States required all trawling shrimping boats to equip their nets with turtle excluder devices.

If any Gulf shrimpers and fishermen removed the turtle excluder devices from their nets, I hope they are caught and fined.

Another example, Turtle excluder devices (TEDs) remove a major threat to turtles in their marine environment.

Fifteen nations use Turtle Excluder Devices to prevent the accidental drowning of sea turtles in shrimp trawls.

Improvements to fishing nets, which now include turtle excluder devices in shrimp trawlers allowing turtles to escape, have also helped save turtle populations.