Measure Will Protect Endangered Loggerhead Sea Turtles From Nets
Montery, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Environmental groups this week requested NOAA Fisheries meet its legal responsibility to close Southern California waters from swordfish drift gillnets to protect endangered loggerhead sea turtles. Southern California waters are teeming with pelagic red crabs — a favorite prey of loggerhead sea turtles — which have been washing up on local beaches. Unusually warm ocean waters — triggered by El Niño conditions — have…
