The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is extending the Skimmer Turtle Excluder Device Reimbursement Program (STEDRP). The agency say the program will reimburse up to 60 percent of ...

Louisiana is starting a financial assistance program to help shrimpers buy new gear to make their nets less lethal for endangered sea turtles. The new $250,000 state program will reimburse up to 60% ...

Louisiana shrimpers are suing the Biden administration over a rule that would require them to use turtle excluder devices on their nets closer to shore. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More shrimp fishermen would have to use nets equipped with turtle escape hatches, to prevent sea turtle deaths, under proposed new federal rules released on Thursday. The National ...

NEW ORLEANS — Several wildlife protection groups are suing the federal agency that regulates fishing in U.S. waters, claiming the government isn't doing enough to protect endangered sea turtles from ...

After holding meetings last summer to discuss requiring turtle excluder devices in all shrimp boats that fish with skimmer trawls -- equipment used primarily in shallow water, such as Louisiana's ...

New rules designed to keep endangered and threatened sea turtles from drowning in some inshore shrimp nets are being postponed, and federal regulators are considering whether to expand the rules.

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today to prevent sea turtles from drowning when they get caught in shrimp trawl nets in the Gulf of Mexico and southeast Atlantic. Earthjustice filed ...