Little update on the sea turtles here on the coast.......

How do you know this?

stated day before yesterday.... I've heard on several sources.

Actually one of the "positives" that could come out of this is keeping the shrimpers off the waters a little longer...those guys do so much damage to the eco-system due to by-catch. all you fisherman who complain about only being able to keep 2 measly snapper over a two month season can largely thank the shrimpers. It's such a frigging primitive way to harvest...that and longlining should be banned or they need to figure out a way to significantly reduce or eliminate by-catch.

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Actually one of the "positives" that could come out of this is keeping the shrimpers off the waters a little longer...those guys do so much damage to the eco-system due to by-catch. all you fisherman who complain about only being able to keep 2 measly snapper over a two month season can largely thank the shrimpers. It's such a frigging primitive way to harvest...that and longlining should be banned or they need to figure out a way to significantly reduce or eliminate by-catch

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Couldn't agree more If you have ever spent any time pulling a trawl the by catch is sickening. Hundreds of juvenile trout and flounder can be caught in a 40 minute drag with even a small recreational trawl of 16'. These large boats pulling five nets at a time kill thousands of fish a day.

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I heard this but I don't believe it

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It was local biologist, not oil companies saying this....

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Hundreds of juvenile trout and flounder can be caught in a 40 minute drag with even a small recreational trawl of 16'. These large boats pulling five nets at a time kill thousands of fish a day.

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I agree with you about the fish, and it sickens me to know what really goes on, but TURTLES?? Come on, there are some many fricking sea turtles out there there should be a season on them.

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There are different types of sea turtles, Green Sea Turtles and Ridley Turtles.. There are five species of endangered and threatened sea turtles in the gulf. Most of them nest on Mexico and Texas

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I would agree to stop eating shrimp or pay twice as much for it if it would stop the trawlers.

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Same here.

i for one dont believe it......i wanna see the dead turtles and ill tell you if they were caught in nets from shrimp boats....

the story about catching snapper...that isnt accurate....not many adult snapper are caught in shrimp nets....many times fisherman keep crabs and some fish to harvest at seafood shops and not many adult snapper are brought in....

the time they told shrimpers they had to fish for a week and they shut down...many of the shrimpers where not ready and they had to scramble to get ready and work for a weeks pay...yeah a weeks pay, not a season on the la coast....virtually impossible to have time to alter nets ...first you have to take them off, that takes time and work and then re thread them ...put it back on from the net company in which they would have been backed up for days fixing them according to what people think shrimpers did(fixing the net or closing the ted)heck even if the ted device was tampered with on all of the boats....that many turtles still would not have been caught....maybe sick ones or dead ones maybe... one or two...but not 20.....

i CALL bullshite....like i said...let me see the turtles and ill tell you if they were dragged in a net....