Notice the diver in the picture, is removing turtles from a mono large mesh gillnet......Now read the excerpt below, which is directly above the picture in the story. Nothing like using misleading characterizations? Shrimp trawlers in the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. southeast Atlantic kill or injure an estimated 53,000 sea turtles — every year — as the ships tow huge nets the width of football fields slowly through the water, trapping almost everything in their wake. These nets pose a significant danger to the sea turtles, a vulnerable population. Sadly, all five sea-turtle species are considered threatened or endangered with extinction in the United States.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 08:29:18 +0000
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