NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Four conservation groups say they’ll sue the National Marine Fisheries Service because it’s taking too long to analyze shrimping’s effects on threatened and endangered sea turtles.
The groups contend that shrimp nets in the Gulf of Mexico kill more than 45,000 sea turtles a year and want the agency to bar shrimp trawling there until it completes its analysis.
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