NGOs Petition Feds to Close California Swordfish Drift Gillnetting to Protect Sea Turtles
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS by Susan Chambers - May 20, 2016
Environmental groups this week requested the National Marine Fisheries Service meet its legal responsibility to close Southern California waters from swordfish drift gillnets to protect endangered loggerhead sea turtles.
The Center for Biological Diversity, Ocean and Turtle Island Restoration Network said in a press release that Southern California waters are teeming with pelagic red crabs — a favorite prey of loggerhead sea turtles — which have been washing up on local beaches...
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