Sea turtle escaping a shrimp net through a turtle excluder deviceLoggerhead turtle exits a fishing net through a TEDLoggerhead sea turtle escapes through the excluder deviceAn example of a commercial turtle excluder device
A turtle excluder device (TED) is a specialized device that allows a captured sea turtle to escape when caught in a fisherman's net.
In particular, sea turtles can be caught when bottom trawling is used by the commercial shrimp fishing industry. In order to catch shrimp, a fine meshed trawl net is needed. This results in large amounts of other marine organisms being also caught as bycatch. When a turtle gets caught or entangled in a trawl net, it becomes trapped and is unable to return to the surface. Since sea turtles are air-breathing animals with lungs, they cannot survive long underwater without surfacing and will eventually drown.
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A turtleexcluderdevice (TED) is a specialized device that allows a captured sea turtle to escape when caught in a fisherman's net. In particular, sea...
Fisheries Service (NMFS) started to develop turtleexcluderdevices (TED). A TED uses a grid which deflects turtles and other big animals, so they exit from...
the emergence of hatchlings. Turtles may also suffocate if they are trapped in fishing trawls. Turtleexcluderdevices have been implemented in efforts...
A mammals and birds excluderdevice or MBED (also named cachalotera) is a device added to fishing gear that avoids the killing of marine mammals and seabirds...
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normal bottom trawling practices, using trawl nets outfitted with a turtleexcluderdevice. BRDs are required in shrimp trawl nets working in the federal waters...
traps from which sea turtles can escape, can dramatically cut the mortality rate. Turtleexcluderdevices (TEDs) have reduced sea turtle bycatch in shrimp...
suffocation. A turtleexcluderdevice (TED) Sea turtle entangled in a net Loggerhead sea turtle exiting from fishing net through a turtleexcluderdevice Divers...
Telecommunication Systems Division, Irvine, California Turtle saving device, another term for turtleexcluderdevice This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
introducing a Turtle Safe certification label to motivate fishermen and shipowners to deploy TurtleExcluderDevices (TEDs) and other turtle bycatch reduction...
required all shrimp trawlers to fit their nets with turtleexcluderdevices that prevent turtles from being entangled in the net and drowning. More locally...
another hazard the animals face. As the largest living sea turtles, turtleexcluderdevices can be ineffective with mature adults. In the eastern Pacific...
holes will allow undersized fish to avoid capture. A turtleexcluderdevice (TED) allows sea turtles and other megafauna to escape from shrimp trawls. Avoiding...
role in conserving olive ridleys. Lastly, enforcing the use of turtleexcluderdevices in the shrimp-trawling industry has also proved effective in some...
efforts to save sea turtles from being victim to bycatch resulted in federal and state regulations requiring the use turtleexcluderdevices (TEDs) in shrimp...
bycatch are unusually high for shrimp fishing, with the capture of sea turtles being especially contentious. A shrimper is a fishing vessel rigged for...
from one part of a water body to another on a regular basis Fish screen – device designed to prevent fish from swimming or being drawn into an aqueductPages...
cephalopods (squids and cuttlefishs), bivalves, and a reptile (softshell turtle). Note that Oreochromis niloticus and Penaeus monodon appear twice, because...
unintentional threats, including boat strikes, fishermen's nets that lack turtleexcluderdevices, pollution and habitat destruction. Chemical pollution may create...
posterior end of the midlateral portion of the hypural plate. This measurement excludes the length of the caudal (tail) fin. Total length (TL) is the length of...
beaches (with high incidental catch), amateur use of fish aggregating devices or traps where they increase the likelihood of locally unsustainable catch...
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