Longline fishing won't be allowed off the California coast, after a federal district court suspended permits for the fishing method, which can entangle and drown leatherback sea turtles
Longline fishing won’t be allowed off the California coast after a federal district court suspended permits for the fishing method.
“The permits were vacated by the court, so the permits are no longer in effect,” said Catherine Kilduff, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed a lawsuit with Turtle Island Restoration Network to challenge the permits. The longline fishery has been closed off the California coast since 2004, but the service issued two permits in April. The permit would have shut down the fishery if the fishing lines caught three live turtles, or brought in one dead one, Kilduff said. But environmental groups said even one death of the imperiled species could harm its chance of recovery. They argued that the critically low populations of leatherback sea turtles left no margin of error for accidental deaths.
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