Trap doors on shrimp nets save the lives of sea turtles, but they significantly reduce the shrimpers' catch, researchers have found.

The police found a body caught in a shrimp net near the area three weeks after the incident last year, and he was identified as David Egan.

On impulse, Matthew dived for cover behind a huge pile of shrimp nets.

Whenever I pull a shrimp net there are scores of little fish caught.

At night, while the terms are roosting, he dazzles them with a lantern and then throws a shrimp net over them.

However, the semicircular child's shrimp nets are just about passable for occasional use.

A 1989 survey found that 55,000 sea turtles were drowning annually in shrimp nets in American waters.

Discarded shrimp nets do more damage: one strangled three whales last week.

Though Culatra's only a mile or so offshore, we sail the long way over to avoid sandbanks and shrimp nets.

Thrugg came over, shaking out his shrimp net.