TEDs being introduced to Malaysian shrimpers and will become mandatory
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Star] By Tan Cheng Li - January 19, 2015
Shrimp trawl nets (in Malaysia) must soon have turtle excluder devices.
By 2017, shrimp trawl fishermen in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia will have to use TEDs in their operations during the monsoon, from November until March. The Fisheries Department will introduce a regulation requiring use of TEDs before fishermen can be issued permits for monsoon shrimp trawling.
The TED ruling will eventually be implemented nation-wide...
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