Regionwide Trustees Form New Partnership to Use State Shrimping Data to Inform Future Sea Turtle Restoration Partners at NOAA, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and LGL Ecological Research Associates are collaborating with the Gulf shrimp industry to aid in sea turtle restoration. This work is being conducted through the "Shrimp Trawl Effort Project in the Gulf of America" that was funded by the Deepwater Horizon Regionwide Trustee Implementation Group's Final Restoration Plan for Birds, Marine Mammals, Oysters, and Sea Turtles. The project uses cellular-based GPS systems to collect data about where and when shrimping vessels fish inside state waters in order to identify areas where shrimp trawling might overlap with sea turtle distribution. This information will help evaluate and guide future voluntary restoration efforts, which will be developed through continued collaboration with shrimp fishery participants. Learn more and view the materials at the Regionwide Trustee Implementation Group's latest Gulf Spill Restoration news update >> | 
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