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Marine Turtle Newsletter 32:9, © 1985

AIFRB Award of Merit

The American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists (AIFRB) awarded its 1984 Special Group Award of Merit to the Harvesting Technology Division, Southeast Fisheries Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA. The award was given for the Division's development of the TED (i.e., "turtle excluder device" or "trawling efficiency device"), a cagelike implement that fits into a shrimp trawl net and reduces the incidental capture of sea turtles and other large by-catch (see MTN 22:1-2, 26:12, 27:6-7). (Based on information in AIFRB Briefs 13(5):4-5, October 1984).