# Endangered and Threatened Wildlife; Sea Turtle Conservation Requirements
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 2003-08-27 · Effective 2003-08-21 · 68 FR 51508
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-21858
- **Category:** other
- **Species:** sea turtle
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 51508
- **Publication date:** 2003-08-27
- **Effective date:** 2003-08-21
- **NOAA docket:** Docket No.030725185-3207-02
## Abstract

NMFS is amending the turtle excluder device (TED) regulations that require most shrimp trawlers to use Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) in the southeastern Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, to reduce the incidental capture of endangered and threatened sea turtles during shrimp trawling. Specifically, NMFS is allowing the use of a design of a hooped hard TED ("the Coulon TED") that is capable of releasing large loggerhead and green turtles as well as leatherback turtles.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/08/27/03-21858/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-sea-turtle-conservation-requirements)
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