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Conservation Groups Demand Immediate Protection for Sea Turtles Jeopardized By Longline Fishing
Jan 13, 2009

CCC joined other conservation groups today to issue a notice of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries  Service does not act to stop bottom longline fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. This comes after observer data revealed 1,000 threatened and endangered sea turtles were caught between July 2006 and the end of 2007.

To read the news release, please visit CCC's press room at http://www.cccturtle.org/pressreleases.php?page=n_Gulf-of-Mexico-Longline-release

To read the notice, please visit http://www.cccturtle.org/pdf/GulfBLLESA60DayNoticeLtr.pdf
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