IUCN members call on EU to reduce marine turtle bycatch by requiring the use of Turtle Excluder Devices by tropical wild-caught shrimp fisheries exporting to the EU market

Six of the seven marine turtle species are categorised as Vulnerable, Endangered, or Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The sponsors of Motion are grateful to all IUCN members who responded to threat posed by bycatch on survival of marine turtles by adopting this landmark motion.

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