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

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

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Same here here

most juvenile trout and snapper are wayyyyy offshore at first then as they grow they move into shallower waters...most snapper will stay in no shallower water than 50 ft.....trout move much closer and i will agree on trout but there population is enormous....most of the trout or any other dead species from shrimping are eaten anyways by other fish, etc when pushed over board....it is a sad thing but a small pirce to pay for a multimillion dollar industry compared to many other things people should be more worried about......

In 1993, the Foundation began placing observers aboard voluntarily participating commercial shrimp trawlers to collect fishery-dependent data concerning shrimp trawl bycatch. From 1993-1996, Foundation-contracted observers logged 2,320 days aboard trawlers, collecting information on 3,162 shrimp trawl tows. According to NMFS Galveston, the programmatic partners' pooled data set consists of ~5700 tows, thus Foundation generated data comprises about 55% of the total. Characterization sampling by Foundation observers included 403 days in the Gulf of Mexico collecting data on 479 shrimp trawl tows, 34 days in the South Atlantic producing data for 34 tows, and an additional 14 days were logged monitoring the catch of 20 tows in the rock shrimp fishery operating off the Atlantic Florida coast. Greater effort was expended evaluating the exclusion efficiency of various bycatch reduction devices (BRD's) and turtle-excluder-devices (Ted's). Observers logged 1426 days in the Gulf of Mexico collecting data on 1696 tows examining BRD's, and 244 tows examining TED's. In the South Atlantic, observers spent 443 days evaluating 689 BRD tows.

According to two separate NMFS analyses, over 450 and 150 taxa have been identified in trawls from the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic respectively; the average catch was 27 kg (~60 lb.) of biomass per hour of trawling. The bycatch to shrimp catch ratios generated by these data were in stark contrast to an often-quoted ratio of 10:1. For the Gulf of Mexico, the bycatch to shrimp ratio was 5¼:1, and for the South Atlantic it was 4½:1. More importantly, the generalization of a 10:1 bycatch ratio has been often misquoted to represent the finfish to shrimp ratio when in fact, in the Gulf of Mexico the finfish to shrimp ratio was 4.2:1, and in the South Atlantic the ratio was 2.8:1.

Quite a serious problem IMO.
By Catch Study

Judging from the reactions, I don't think a link would help.

I know a couple of shrimpers, and I know how many game fish they catch as by catch.

And they are definitely not hurting for fish around their house.

Nola.com turtle article

It's obviously dated a couple of days back but maybe this is the link the OP was citing?

nope, probably not...

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I heard this but I don't believe it

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Why?

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Which bodily orifice are you pulling that information out of because its complete bullshite?

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probably the same one that his head frequently visits....maybe he has "cranial-rectal-itis"

baby tout are not wayyyyyyy offshore but they are offshore. This is the time of year when the trout move out to spawn and lay their egss, hence the reason why they all always full of eggs during to summer months. Come october the baby trout will start moving back into the marshes.