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    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...
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    Fisheries Service (NMFS) started to develop turtle excluder devices (TED). A TED uses a grid which deflects turtles and other big animals, so they exit from...
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    the emergence of hatchlings. Turtles may also suffocate if they are trapped in fishing trawls. Turtle excluder devices have been implemented in efforts...
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  • protection of endangered sea turtles, and (b) prohibited the importation of shrimp that was produced without Turtle Excluder Device technology introduced by...
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  • A mammals and birds excluder device 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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    estimate of 1947 . One mechanism used to protect turtles from fishing nets is the turtle excluder device (TED). It is a grid of bars with an opening at...
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    S2CID 17162851. "Turtle Excluder Devices". noaa.gov. 18 August 2021. Archived from the original on 12 April 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2011. Turtle Excluder Device on YouTube...
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  • ophthalmopathy Tooheys Extra Dry, Australian beer Turtle excluder device, for letting sea turtles escape from fishing-nets Ted (disambiguation) Teds...
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    traps from which sea turtles can escape, can dramatically cut the mortality rate. Turtle excluder devices (TEDs) have reduced sea turtle bycatch in shrimp...
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  • normal bottom trawling practices, using trawl nets outfitted with a turtle excluder device. BRDs are required in shrimp trawl nets working in the federal waters...
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    suffocation. A turtle excluder device (TED) Sea turtle entangled in a net Loggerhead sea turtle exiting from fishing net through a turtle excluder device Divers...
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  • Telecommunication Systems Division, Irvine, California Turtle saving device, another term for turtle excluder device This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    required all shrimp trawlers to fit their nets with turtle excluder devices that prevent turtles from being entangled in the net and drowning. More locally...
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    introducing a Turtle Safe certification label to motivate fishermen and shipowners to deploy Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) and other turtle bycatch reduction...
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    holes will allow undersized fish to avoid capture. A turtle excluder device (TED) allows sea turtles and other megafauna to escape from shrimp trawls. Avoiding...
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    bycatch are unusually high for shrimp fishing, with the capture of sea turtles being especially contentious. A shrimper is a fishing vessel rigged for...
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    another hazard the animals face. As the largest living sea turtles, turtle excluder devices can be ineffective with mature adults. In the eastern Pacific...
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    role in conserving olive ridleys. Lastly, enforcing the use of turtle excluder devices in the shrimp-trawling industry has also proved effective in some...
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  • efforts to save sea turtles from being victim to bycatch resulted in federal and state regulations requiring the use turtle excluder devices (TEDs) in shrimp...
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  • 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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    Inescapable Mercury Awareness Program Highlighted on Pacifica Radio | Turtle Island Restoration Network A Mercury Calculator from Got Mercury? Fish,...
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    unintentional threats, including boat strikes, fishermen's nets that lack turtle excluder devices, pollution and habitat destruction. Chemical pollution may create...
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    cephalopods (squids and cuttlefishs), bivalves, and a reptile (softshell turtle). Note that Oreochromis niloticus and Penaeus monodon appear twice, because...
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    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...
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  • forest. The critically endangered hawksbill turtle (17% of the archipelago) and the endangered green turtle (75% of the archipelago) visit St. Brandon...
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