FRETEY ; Pressure should be put on the fishermen to get 

 them to use TEDs. 



GILLET ; If support for the use of TEDs is not available in 

 the short term, could a system be set up whereby 

 shrimping vessels would have to contribute toward 

 implementing a headstarting program as a condition 

 of receiving permission to fish? 



FOSTER ; H. Reichart was asked if the Government as well as 



fishermen in Guyana opposed the use of TEDs. 



REICHART ; Consultations have been held with fishermen, their 



representatives, and the Minister of Fisheries. 

 All indicated little interest, citing desire to 

 retain bycatch and the belief that shrimp would be 

 lost by using a TED. 



The chair opened the discussion to the audience. 



S . MURPHY ; Five different models of TEDs now exist. All 



exclude turtles, but they exclude varying amounts 

 of bycatch. 



REICHART; 



S. MURPHY ; 



REICHART ; 

 CAILLOUET; 



CHAIR; 



REICHART; 



CAILLOUET; 



CHAIR; 



The shrimp fleet off Guyana, mostly American, had 

 moved off French Guiana and Benin, rendering these 

 countries as potential sources of a solution to 

 the problem. 



The use of TEDs would be cheaper than funding a 

 headstarting program. 



A solution is required as quickly as possible. 



The similarities between what has happened to the 

 Kemp's ridley and the Atlantic population of the 

 olive ridley are striking. Have strandings of the 

 latter been observed? 



Only 12 specimens of all turtle species were 

 observed in Surinam during 1987. 



Many undamaged stranded leatherbacks were seen but 

 no olive ridleys in 1985/86. 



If mortalities are due to shrimpers, why were 

 there no strandings? 



Olive ridley strandings have not been reported for 

 the past 20 years. 



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