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Love sea turtles? The iSeaTurtle app is made for you.
Created by the lab of Dr. Pamela Plotkin, professor and Texas Sea Grant director, the iSeaTurtle app was made to assist with an ecosystem assessment of Matagorda Bay.
The app partnered with the Turtle Island Restoration Network to expand its coverage to track turtle sightings all over Texas coast, a news release said. Turtle Island Restoration Network is thrilled to be part of the iSeaturtle app to gather critical data on sea turtles in Gulf waters,” Joanie Steinhaus, gulf program director of Turtle Island Restoration Network, said in the release. Knowing the locations of sea turtles will help scientists save turtles from going extinct, and we hope every Texan will support these paramount efforts.
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Bans fishing method that indiscriminately kills or injures protected marine species
WASHINGTON The House of Representatives yesterday passed a bipartisan bill to phase out harmful large mesh drift gillnets utilized in the federal waters off the coast of California, the only place the nets are still used in the United States. The Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act passed the Senate in July and now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature.
Large mesh driftnets more than a mile long are left in the ocean overnight to catch swordfish and thresher sharks but also indiscriminately capture, injure, and kill other marine species including whales, dolphins, sea lions, sea turtles, fish, and sharks. Most of these animals, referred to as “bycatch,” are then discarded. The use of driftnets by a single fishery in California is responsible for 90 percent of the dolphins and porpoises