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- noun fishing A device that allows a captured
sea turtle to escape when caught in a fishing net.
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yarb commented on the word turtle excluder device
A device for reducing bycatch in commercial fishing, first developed (per Wikipedia) in the 1970s by a fisherman named Sinkey Boone.
October 4, 2008
reesetee commented on the word turtle excluder device
Too good to be true. :-)
October 4, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word turtle excluder device
I met Sinkey Boone at a sea turtle conference in Florida in the late 1980's. Brash and white-haired, somewhat Hemingwayesque. I came to dislike him because he used to drunk-dial my then girlfriend, a wildlife sculptor who'd exhibited at that and other conferences he attended.
January 5, 2013