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
@realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici
@realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici
@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
@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @RepBera @USFWS @NOAAFisheries @RepFletcher @RepHaleyStevens @RepKendraHorn @RepSherrill @BradSherman @GOP TRAVESTY: @NOAAFisheries's Plan to save sea turtles from shrimp boats scaled way back @USFWS postandcourier.com/news/plan-to-s… @RepCohen @SecretaryRoss @RepMcNerney @RepPerlmutter @RepPaulTonko @RepBillFoster @RepDonBeyer @RepCharlieCrist @RepCasten @RepBenMcAdams @RepWexton @RepConorLamb
@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @RepBera @USFWS @NOAAFisheries @RepFletcher @RepHaleyStevens @RepKendraHorn @RepSherrill @BradSherman @GOP @RepCohen @RepMcNerney @RepPerlmutter @RepPaulTonko @RepBillFoster @RepDonBeyer @RepCharlieCrist @RepCasten @RepBenMcAdams @RepWexton @RepConorLamb Five sea turtle species, all endangered/threatened, are found in the Gulf of Mexico. Those most often found inshore are Kemp’s ridley, green & loggerhead sea turtles, w an occasional hawksbill or leatherback. #SaveSeaTurtles #TedsForAllTrawls @GregAbbott_TX @JohnCornyn @tedcruz
@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @RepBera @USFWS @NOAAFisheries @RepFletcher @RepHaleyStevens @RepKendraHorn @RepSherrill @BradSherman @GOP @RepCohen @RepMcNerney @RepPerlmutter @RepPaulTonko @RepBillFoster @RepDonBeyer @RepCharlieCrist @RepCasten @RepBenMcAdams @RepWexton @RepConorLamb @GregAbbott_TX @JohnCornyn @tedcruz @NOAAFisheries's rule change harms endangered sea turtles beaumontenterprise.com/opinions/edito… @RepFrankLucas @RepMoBrooks @congbillposey @TXRandy14 @repbrianbabin @RepAndyBiggsAZ @RogerMarshallMD
@RepRalphNorman @RepCloudTX @RepBalderson @RepPeteOlson @RepAGonzalez @repmichaelwaltz @USFWS
@RepRalphNorman @RepCloudTX @RepBalderson @RepPeteOlson @RepAGonzalez @repmichaelwaltz @USFWS
@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @RepBera @USFWS @NOAAFisheries @RepFletcher @RepHaleyStevens @RepKendraHorn @RepSherrill @BradSherman @GOP @RepCohen @RepMcNerney @RepPerlmutter @RepPaulTonko @RepBillFoster @RepDonBeyer @RepCharlieCrist @RepCasten @RepBenMcAdams @RepWexton @RepConorLamb @GregAbbott_TX @JohnCornyn @tedcruz @RepMoBrooks @congbillposey @TXRandy14 @RepBrianBabin @RepAndyBiggsAZ @RogerMarshallMD @RepRalphNorman @RepCloudTX @RepBalderson @RepPeteOlson @RepAGonzalez @RepMichaelWaltz If you were hoping that our country might get through 2019 without another rollback on environmental rules by @realDonaldTrump, you will be disappointed. @NOAA announced that it will scale back plans to require more shrimpers to include sea turtle escape hatches in their nets.
@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @RepBera @USFWS @NOAAFisheries @RepFletcher @RepHaleyStevens @RepKendraHorn @RepSherrill @BradSherman @GOP @RepCohen @RepMcNerney @RepPerlmutter @RepPaulTonko @RepBillFoster @RepDonBeyer @RepCharlieCrist @RepCasten @RepBenMcAdams @RepWexton @RepConorLamb @GregAbbott_TX @JohnCornyn @tedcruz @RepMoBrooks @congbillposey @TXRandy14 @RepBrianBabin @RepAndyBiggsAZ @RogerMarshallMD @RepRalphNorman @RepCloudTX @RepBalderson @RepPeteOlson @RepAGonzalez @RepMichaelWaltz Instead of protecting sea turtles by requiring turtle excluder devices (TEDs) in 3 kinds of inshore nets, @NOAA will mandate them in only in the most numerous type called skimmer trawls. And then, only boats at least 40 feet long will need TEDs @RepJimBaird @doioig @CommerceOIG
@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @RepBera @USFWS @NOAAFisheries @RepFletcher @RepHaleyStevens @RepKendraHorn @RepSherrill @BradSherman @GOP @RepCohen @RepMcNerney @RepPerlmutter @RepPaulTonko @RepBillFoster @RepDonBeyer @RepCharlieCrist @RepCasten @RepBenMcAdams @RepWexton @RepConorLamb @GregAbbott_TX @JohnCornyn @tedcruz @RepMoBrooks @congbillposey @TXRandy14 @RepBrianBabin @NOAAFisheries's sad rollback will result in more of our endangered sea turtles being caught & drowned in nets designed to catch shrimp. @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @USFWS @doioig @CommerceOIG @RepEBJ @RepFletcher @TXRandy14 @RepRonWright @repbrianbabin @RepCloudTX @RepPeteOlson
@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @RepBera @USFWS @NOAAFisheries @RepFletcher @RepHaleyStevens @RepKendraHorn @RepSherrill @BradSherman @GOP @RepCohen @RepMcNerney @RepPerlmutter @RepPaulTonko @RepBillFoster @RepDonBeyer @RepCharlieCrist @RepCasten @RepBenMcAdams @RepWexton @RepConorLamb @GregAbbott_TX @JohnCornyn @tedcruz @RepMoBrooks @congbillposey @TXRandy14 @RepBrianBabin @doioig @CommerceOIG @RepRonWright @RepCloudTX @RepPeteOlson Most shrimpers hate TEDs &try to avoid using them whenever they can. By one estimate, compliance w the trawl length rule was only about 35% on boats where captains &crews knew observers were stationed. Those dismal numbers will not be going up w regulatory changes like this @NOAA
@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @RepBera @USFWS @NOAAFisheries @RepFletcher @RepHaleyStevens @RepKendraHorn @RepSherrill @BradSherman @GOP @RepCohen @RepMcNerney @RepPerlmutter @RepPaulTonko @RepBillFoster @RepDonBeyer @RepCharlieCrist @RepCasten @RepBenMcAdams @RepWexton @RepConorLamb @GregAbbott_TX @JohnCornyn @tedcruz @RepMoBrooks @congbillposey @TXRandy14 @RepBrianBabin @doioig @CommerceOIG @RepRonWright @RepCloudTX @RepPeteOlson #TEDs were bitterly opposed by shrimpers when first required many years ago. But the devices have been improved over the years to allow fewer shrimp to escape nets without trapping & drowning the turtles, which breathe air. @RepEBJ @RepFletcher @TXRandy14 @repbrianbabin @USFWS
@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @RepBera @USFWS @NOAAFisheries @RepFletcher @RepHaleyStevens @RepKendraHorn @RepSherrill @BradSherman @GOP @RepCohen @RepMcNerney @RepPerlmutter @RepPaulTonko @RepBillFoster @RepDonBeyer @RepCharlieCrist @RepCasten @RepBenMcAdams @RepWexton @RepConorLamb @GregAbbott_TX @JohnCornyn @tedcruz @RepMoBrooks @congbillposey @TXRandy14 @RepBrianBabin @doioig @CommerceOIG @RepRonWright @RepCloudTX @RepPeteOlson As with any challenge like this, the way to save an endangered plant or animal is to make a serious effort to reduce the human activity that threatens it so that it may flourish naturally. @RepCloudTX @RepPeteOlson @SecretaryRoss @CommerceOIG @doioig @NOAA #TedsForAllTrawls
@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @RepBera @USFWS @NOAAFisheries @RepFletcher @RepHaleyStevens @RepKendraHorn @RepSherrill @BradSherman @GOP @RepCohen @RepMcNerney @RepPerlmutter @RepPaulTonko @RepBillFoster @RepDonBeyer @RepCharlieCrist @RepCasten @RepBenMcAdams @RepWexton @RepConorLamb @GregAbbott_TX @JohnCornyn @tedcruz @RepMoBrooks @congbillposey @TXRandy14 @RepBrianBabin @NOAAFisheries's new regulation, like so many others under the Trump presidency, goes in the ~wrong direction~ unnecessarily. @NOAA @CommerceGov @SecretaryRoss @CommerceOIG @USFWS @doioig @RepEBJ @HouseScience @SpeakerPelosi @RepFrankLucas @SenateGOP @HouseGOP #SaveSeaTurtles
@NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @RepBera @USFWS @NOAAFisheries @RepFletcher @RepHaleyStevens @RepKendraHorn @RepSherrill @BradSherman @GOP @RepCohen @RepMcNerney @RepPerlmutter @RepPaulTonko @RepBillFoster @RepDonBeyer @RepCharlieCrist @RepCasten @RepBenMcAdams @RepWexton @RepConorLamb @GregAbbott_TX @JohnCornyn @tedcruz @RepMoBrooks @congbillposey @TXRandy14 @RepBrianBabin @CommerceOIG @doioig @SpeakerPelosi @SenateGOP @HouseGOP SEASONS GREETINGS @threadreaderapp Please unroll.
Thousands of sea turtles die each year in trawl nets. Join me and @Oceana and demand #TEDsForAllTrawls: goo.gl/Gywfpz
