U.S. to Mexico: Stop Sea Turtle Deaths or Suffer Sanctions

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WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015.  The National Marine Fisheries Service, a U.S. federal agency, announced on Friday that Mexico’s fisheries are killing too many endangered loggerhead turtles. As a result the United States will levy an embargo on Mexican seafood imports if Mexico fails to tighten its fishing regulations to protect the turtles.

Scientists estimate that Mexican halibut and shark fisheries off Baja California Sur have killed more than 2,000 endangered…