LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Louisiana shrimpers are not giving up their fight. The Louisiana Shrimpers Association is suing the Biden Administration over the required use of turtle excluder devices ...

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 ...

Gov. Bobby Jindal signed a bill Wednesday (July 1) repealing a 1987 state law that prohibited Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents from enforcing federal turtle-excluder device ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A lawsuit filed by the Louisiana Shrimp Association on Wednesday could affect shrimping along the Gulf Coast. This lawsuit was filed against the Biden Administration National ...

A loggerhead turtle escaping a shrimp net through a turtle excluder device. The devices are required by federal law to protect sea turtles in federal waters, and also are required in Louisiana waters.

The Louisiana Shrimp Association has sued the National Marine Fisheries Service over a federal rule that forces certain kinds of boats to use devices that allow turtles to escape fishing nets unharmed ...

NEW ORLEANS (KPLC) - The Louisiana Shrimp Association (LSA) has filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) regarding a 2019 rule that ...

Federal regulators have vastly scaled back a plan to make more shrimp nets include sea turtle escape hatches. A conservation group calls it "a dangerous departure." The proposed rule would have ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (KLFY) — The Louisiana Shrimp Association has filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service for their rule requiring skimmer trawl vessels to use Turtle Excluder ...

When diamondback terrapins spy bait sitting in a crab pot, they often push their way inside to feast, only to get stuck. Terrapins, a small and vulnerable species, use lungs to breathe and can drown ...

A wild sea turtle escapes from a shrimp net equipped with a new small-bar turtle excluder device during testing by NOAA Fisheries in June 2022. One of the new restoration projects planned for the open ...