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Description
A combination turtle excluder device/bycatch reduction device manufactured bySaunders Marine Machine Shop. Fish escape by swimming forward and out of thelarge holes in the net. Shrimp are swept into the bag at the end of the net and cannot swim out. (Image credit: William B. Folsom)
Photographer
William B. Folsom
Display Date
1996 March
Location
Mississippi, Biloxi
Collection
Fisheries
Fishing Techniques
Shrimp Trawling
NOAA Affiliation
NMFS
Keywords
Fisheries
Commercial Fishing
Technique Shrimp Trawling