Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 13/09/1995

Sea Turtle Conservation; Restrictions Applicable to Shrimp Trawling Activities

NMFS announces that it is considering proposing regulations that would identify special sea turtle management areas in the southeastern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico and impose additional conservation measures to protect sea turtles in these areas. This ANPR is in response to the need for such measures identified in NMFS' biological opinions on shrimp trawling, as well as NMFS' recent experience and additional information regarding the need to more effectively protect sea turtles from incidental capture and mortality in the shrimp trawl fishery. NMFS also received a petition for rulemaking from the Texas Shrimp Association (TSA) to revise the current sea turtle conservation requirements for the shrimp trawl fishery in the southeastern United States. The petition is based on a report: ``Sea Turtle and Shrimp Fishery Interactions--Is a New Management Strategy Needed?'' prepared by LGL Ecological Research Associates, Inc., for TSA (LGL Report). NMFS is soliciting public comment on the LGL Report and information on sea turtles and shrimp trawling and the need for identification of certain areas in the southeastern United States that require special management measures, and what those mea