Louisiana shrimpers are suing the Biden administration over a rule that would require them to use turtle excluder devices on their nets closer to shore. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A lawsuit filed by the Louisiana Shrimp Association on Wednesday could affect shrimping along the Gulf Coast. This lawsuit was filed against the Biden Administration National ...

More shrimp fishermen would have to use nets equipped with turtle escape hatches, to prevent sea turtle deaths, under proposed new federal rules. The National Marine Fisheries Service wants to require ...

A turtle excluder device, or TED, sits at lower left in the shrimp net above. (Photo by NOLA.com | Times-Picayune archive) During a Louisiana fisheries summit mainly focused on ways to better market ...

Federal regulators have vastly scaled back a plan to make more shrimp nets include sea turtle escape hatches. A conservation group calls it "a dangerous departure." The proposed rule would have ...

NEW ORLEANS (KPLC) - The Louisiana Shrimp Association (LSA) has filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) regarding a 2019 rule that ...

After holding meetings last summer to discuss requiring turtle excluder devices in all shrimp boats that fish with skimmer trawls -- equipment used primarily in shallow water, such as Louisiana's ...

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 ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Louisiana shrimpers are not giving up their fight. The Louisiana Shrimpers Association is suing the Biden Administration over the required use of turtle excluder devices ...