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.

A new federal rule aimed at protecting sea turtles from shrimping nets is getting mixed reactions from conservation groups. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has finalized a new rule ...

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 ...

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 ...