Endangered Whales And Sea Turtles Off California And Oregon Remain Protected
November 19, 2006 @ 05:53 PM (EST)
Source: Seaturtles.org
Environmental groups this week successfully fought off a Bush Administration proposal to allow drift-gillnet fishing into protected areas off the Northern California and Southern Oregon coasts in 2006. November 15, 2006 marked the end of a proposed three-month fishing season that would have allowed drift-gillnet fishing vessels to set their deadly gear in the Pacific Leatherback Conservation Area, a marine protected area stretching from Point Sur, California to central Oregon in which drift-gillnet gear is seasonally banned to protected the critically endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle...
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