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TRAVESTY: @NOAA’s new turtle excluder rule is a ~dangerous departure~ from the path it had been on toward saving sea turtles from nets al.com/news/2019/12/p… @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas
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@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici A plan to make more shrimpers include sea turtle escape hatches (turtle excluder devices) in their nets has been vastly scaled back, federal regulators announced Thursday, potentially contributing to the deaths of more than 1,000 endangered sea turtles each year. @RepBera @USFWS 
@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @RepBera @USFWS @NOAAFisheries rolled back a rule that would apply to fewer than 1,100 inshore shrimp boats in the Gulf of Mexico &along the southeast Atlantic coast to use turtle excluder devices, down from 5,800 boats. @RepFletcher @RepHaleyStevens @RepKendraHorn @RepSherrill @BradSherman @GOP
