NEW ORLEANS — The federal government is reminding shrimpers that more boats are now required to have escape hatches for sea turtles installed in their nets. Boats ...

Gary Moses spends a lot of time in the tiny shed outside of his house in Awendaw. While most of the shed is stacked high with storage boxes, yard equipment and tools, this space is where the Army ...

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross approved new regulations protecting sea turtles from dying in shrimp nets. Sea turtles in the waters of the U.S. are endangered, and approximately 1,342 sea turtles die ...

New rules designed to keep endangered and threatened sea turtles from drowning in some inshore shrimp nets are being postponed, and federal regulators are considering whether to expand the rules, ...

A plan to make more shrimpers include sea turtle escape hatches in their nets has been vastly scaled back , federal regulators announced Thursday, potentially contributing to the deaths of more than 1 ...

As Hurricane Francine bears down on southern Louisiana, shrimpers gathered a small, pink treasure trove. But with prices low, it doesn’t amount to much green. Hurricane Francine closed in on ...

The rule now in effect was scaled back considerably from the original, which would have applied to about 5,800 inshore shrimp boats in the Gulf of Mexico and southeast Atlantic, and to all three kinds ...