he Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Florida Park Service and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) today released 23 loggerhead turtles at Sebastian Inlet State Park. The three year old turtles are graduates of an innovative National Marine Fisheries Service program, the Turtle Excluder Device (TED) certification program. Marine experts released them at the Indian River Lagoon on the landward side of Sebastian Inlet State Park, which provides access to the Atlantic Ocean.
The loggerhead turtles have helped marine scientists test the effectiveness of a commercial fishing apparatus known as the Turtle Excluder Device. The TED is a metal grid of bars attached to a shrimp trawling net. It has an opening at either the top or the bottom which creates a hatch allowing larger animals such as sea turtles to escape while keeping shrimp inside. In 1987, the United States implemented regulations that require all U.S. shrimpers to use TEDs on their trawlers.
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Loggerhead Turtles Released at Sebastian Inlet State Park
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