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 ...

The environmental group Oceana is calling for the federal government to require about 2,400 skimmer trawls to use turtle excluder devices, but the president of the state shrimpers association said ...

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents say they seized the trawl net of a Metairie man who was shrimping in Lake Pontchartrain without a required turtle-exclusion device. Agents were ...