Turtle hatchlings are released into the Atlantic, the Obama administration examines other corporations’ liability and hearings on the explosion are set to resume.
More than half the turtles dissected so far had sediment in their lungs or airways, which indicated they might have been caught in nets and drowned, a government scientist said.
Texas researcher Steven Platt and staff of Wildlife Conservation Society discover five rare Arakan forest turtles, once thought to be extinct, in remote Rakhine Yoma Elephant Sanctuary in Myanmar
That no group was completely satisfied when a federal panel voted to limit longlines to catch grouper in the Gulf of Mexico is seen as a positive development.
Fishery managers trying to protect rare sea turtles have chosen a Cape Cod company to build a device that they think can help balance turtle protection with profitable fishing.