We are therefore mailing a letter to each and every U.S. senator to express our alarm and indignation that such an irresponsible bill could be given serious consideration at all. Bill S-768 must not be allowed to pass. Bill S-768, in fact, should be treated with the same contempt it heaps on all endangered species and the environment. It's not hard to figure out where he is going on this one. That would allow the argument that anyone who injures or kills a member of an endangered species by an indirect action, let's say by failing to use a Turtle Excluder Device and thereby drowning turtles, could not be held responsible.
Fishing is certainly a legal activity.
Certainly drowning sea turtles is not the purpose of fishing. We will state straight out, we are worried. We are very much interested in sea turtles and their precarious struggle for survival. Senator, there is a species of sea turtle in the Gulf of Mexico called the Kemp's Ridley. It is the most endangered of all.