The following letter is from Tom Mazzetta is the founder and CEO of Mazzetta Company, LLC.
On May 24, 2016, the Louisiana newspaper, The Advocate, ran an article entitled “Oceana Report Calls on More [Louisiana] Trawls to be Equipped with TEDs, and for Smaller Spacing Between Bars to Reduce Bycatch."
While I don’t often align myself with Oceana’s positions on fisheries management, they certainly got it right this time.
Oceana’s report cites that in 2013 alone, the Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery discarded an estimated 242 million pounds of seafood and ocean wildlife; roughly 62 percent of its total catch.
