Olive Ridley Deaths: Odisha to introduce new turtle excluder devices

Bhubaneswar: Lakhs of Olive Ridley turtles embark on their journey for nesting along Odisha coast every year, little aware of the fate which awaits them. Thousands of them get killed after being stuck in fishing nets, but that is soon going to change, thanks to Turtle Excluder Devices (TED). The Departments of Forest & Environment […]

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Bhubaneswar: Lakhs of Olive Ridley turtles embark on their journey for nesting along Odisha coast every year, little aware of the fate which awaits them. Thousands of them get killed after being stuck in fishing nets, but that is soon going to change, thanks to Turtle Excluder Devices (TED).

The Departments of Forest & Environment and Fisheries have introduced TED, which will allow turtles to slip through fishing nets instead of getting tangled in them.