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TAS Steven Frantz demonstrates how a Turtle Excluder Device allows larger animals to escape shrimp nets.

December 9, 2013
The Endangered Species Act has inspired some ingenious inventions to help protect endangered marine species while maintaining our fisheries. Do you know what this device is?

Photo: Steven Frantz

Earlier in the morning a group of four year olds visited and learned how a Turtle Excluder Device (TED) works. TED’s are required to be installed on shrimp nets. Before the advent of TED’s, when a sea turtle was caught in a shrimp net, it usually drowned before the net was hauled up. Now, when a sea turtle gets caught in a net, it travels through the net until it gets to the TED. The TED looks like bars on a jail cell. The smaller shrimp can pass through, but the sea turtle gets pushed up and out through an opening in the net." - Steven Frantz
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