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NOAA backs off after 'data vindicates shrimpers'

Emily

Emily

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http://www.sunherald.com/2011/08/11/3343973/noaa-backs-off-after-data-vindicates.html
Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011
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NOAA backs off after data vindicates shrimpers
Most turtle deaths occurred before shrimp season
By KAREN NELSON

BILOXI -- NOAA Fisheries has data that shows Gulf shrimpers are now using their turtle-protection devices.

Partly because of this, the agency has decided not to impose emergency measures on the shrimping industry in order to stop the unusually high number of sea-turtle deaths in the northern Gulf since the BP oil spill in 2010.

Read more: http://www.sunherald.com/2011/08/11...a-vindicates.html#disqus_thread#ixzz1V5kg2IHZ
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Previous thread on the focus on shrimpers:
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=169782

One of the comments to the Sun Herald article said that it seems like the potential impact of 1,800-foot 'pogy' nets used by corporations in the pet food and omega-3 oil industries has not been addressed.

Here is an article from 2008 about that powerful industry:

http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=7814d9edf2b18574

NOAA seems to have been doing a good job working with shrimpers and that is important, but I hope those pogy nets get some scrutiny, too.

Also, I'm wondering if results on tissue pathology/toxicology have been made public yet.
 
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