It is common knowledge that Shrimp Fishing and Gill-Netters in the Golfo Dulce area are depleting and raping the natural habitat of the endangered and protected sea turtles and other marine life, like dolphins, Dorado, Wahoo, and shark. Even with years of outcry from ecology conservation groups, little has been done about it until now … well, let hope!
The main problem with shrimp trawlers and gill-netters is their nets rape the sea, dragging in and killing everything that gets in their way. And since there is no real set of rules, let alone the enforcement of it … read more how new laws may stop it at Rape of Sea Turtles in Costa Rica
Don Coley says
The thing is it’s like gill netters and those trawlers that put out those nets that surround the fish. The only thing they could do is empty the nets in a certain amount of time.