Flynet Trouser Trawl Turtle Excluder Device Testing
In 1994, the National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Observer Program documented sea turtle bycatch in the Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) and weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) trawl fishery off North Carolina.  The fishery utilized a high opening bottom trawl locally known as a âflynet.â  In …