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The Great Escape!
One of the biggest threats to sea turtles, such as the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) pictured here, is being accidentally caught and killed in fishing nets. Trapped in a net, the turtles are dragged through the water with no access to the surface to breathe, causing them to drown.
To address this problem, NOAA Fisheries worked with the shrimp trawling industry to install escape hatches into their nets called Turtle Excluder Devices, or TEDs. A crosshatch of bars in the middle of the net create a grid large enough for small shrimp to pass through, but not turtles and other large animals. When they hit the grid, they can then swim out through a hole in the net and escape.
Before TEDs were installed, an estimated 70 to 80 percent of turtle strandings on beaches were caused by shrimp nets. But since they were installed by U.S. shrimpers in the Gulf of Mexico in the late 1980s, strandings caused by shrimp nets are estimated to be down by at least 44 percent.
Photo: NOAA
Seascape ~100 million years of life~.
In my carapace So many worlds The dinosaur lives on in the shell.
100 million years, I carry.
without light can't breathe So let me connect The Miracle Road.
To meet to the most important life in the world Please save my earth
私の背中に たくさんの世界 甲羅の中に 恐竜は生き続ける.
一億年を繋いで
光なしでは息ができないから 繋がせて 奇跡の道
一番大事な命に会いに行くために どうか私の地球を守って
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