# Sea Turtle Conservation; Shrimp Trawling Requirements
> **Rule** · Temporary rule; request for comments. · Published 1999-10-25 · Effective 1999-10-19 · 64 FR 57397
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-27692
- **Category:** other
- **Species:** sea turtle
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 57397
- **Publication date:** 1999-10-25
- **Effective date:** 1999-10-19
- **NOAA docket:** Docket No.950427117-9278-11
## Abstract

NMFS issues this temporary action to allow the use of limited tow times by shrimp trawlers as an alternative to the use of Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) in inshore waters of Matagorda Bay, Texas, east of the line running from the Matagorda Jetties, along the Matagorda Ship Channel, to Matagorda Ship Channel Mile Marker 54 (Lat. 28 deg.33'38<gr-thn-eq>N, Long.96 deg.30'50<gr-thn-eq>W) and thence to Sand Point (Lat. 28 deg.34'08<gr-thn-eq>N, Long. 96 deg.29'29<gr-thn-eq>W), including Carancahua and Tres Palacios Bays.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/10/25/99-27692/sea-turtle-conservation-shrimp-trawling-requirements)
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