Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs)
TEDs are used in northern prawn trawl fisheries as an escape hatch for turtles. If turtles cannot escape from a trawl net they cannot reach the surface to breathe and may drown.
TEDs consist of a grid across the codend of the net which forces turtles and other large objects out of the net without the prawn catch escaping.
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