Hooking fish, not endangered turtles Novel tuna-fishing gear may avoid unintended avian and turtle casualties

Hooking fish, not endangered turtles Novel tuna-fishing gear may avoid unintended avian and turtle casualties

A tuna fisherman has taken it upon himself to make the seas safer for sea turtles, animals that are threatened or endangered with extinction worldwide. He’s designed a new hook that he says will make bait — and the lethal barb that secures it — unavailable to marine birds and turtles until long after it’s sunk well below the range where these animals venture to eat.