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| Emergency Closure Stops Longline Fishing in the Gulf of Mexico
by Carole Allen, Gulf Office Director
April 29th, 2009
• Following the lawsuit filed April 15 by STRP and other conservation groups and renewed action by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council to support an emergency closure in mid-April, NMFS is closing the bottom longline fishery in the Gulf of Mexico for up to 180 days. |
 | STRP launches first community marine reserve in Papua New Guinea
January 29th, 2009
The Turtle Island Restoration Network’s Sea Turtle Restoration Project and the people of Karkum Village recently launched the new Karkum Conservation Area, a common turtle nesting site of the critically endangered Western Pacific leatherback turtle species
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