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COMMENTS: Shrimpers now Help Turtles
NBC's Kerry Sanders was in the brackish waters of Barataria Bay where a symbolic graveyard has been built: "The crosses on Grand Isle mourn the sea life that fishermen fear may never return." Dead turtles include giant loggerheads and endangered Kemp's Ridley. "Until now the leading cause of accidental deaths of turtles has been getting caught in shrimpers' nets. Now it is those very shrimpers, out collecting the oil, who may wind up saving the turtles' lives."
Meanwhile, Sanders' colleague Mark Potter filed from Orange Beach Ala where containment booms and skimmer boats are trying to protect the tourist beaches.
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