Texas Fauna Project

Shrimp

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Tony Amos, a long-time researcher at the Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, ran the Animal Rehabilitation Keep, a wildlife rehabilitation center where he saw a number of injured sea turtles and other creatures damaged by shrimp trawls. Here he explains struggles with Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs), and laments the economic pressures on shrimpers and the lost trust between them and environmentalists.