Please finalize the Emergency Closure of the Bottom Longline Fishery in the Gulf
of Mexico to protect sea turtles from capture and drowning. The Emergency
Closure should remain in place for the full five months as proposed. I also urge
you to extend it for another five months as allowed by law. Under no
circumstances should this fishery be re-opened until a full biological review is
completed as required under the Endangered Species Act - and until measures to
protect sea turtles from drowning on longlines are required. The permanent closure
of the fishery should be given full consideration given that hundreds of rare and
endangered sea turtles are caught and killed every year
Comment from Marla de Vries
This is comment on Rule
Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic: Reef Fish Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Gulf Reef Fish Longline Restriction
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