NOAA Turtle Excluder Device (TED) B-Roll
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Total Running
Time: 18:50
1:00:13:00
Endangered Species: Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Underwater footage: tracking shot of swimming Loggerhead sea turtle
1:01:03:00
Endangered Species: Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
Swimming in tank and eating food pellets at
NOAA's Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Galveston Laboratory
1:01:50:00
SOUNDBITE: Jessica Liberatore, Fisheries Biologist
Picks up Kemp's Ridley turtle from tank and gives info and population
statistics.
1:02:20:00
SOUNDBITE: Ann Kidwell, Biological Science Technician
With shrimp trawl/TED display outside Galveston lab, explains the purpose
of TEDs and how they work, etc.
1:03:24:00
SOUNDBITE: Ben Higgins, Biologist, tech. supervisor, research director
At same TED display with guests, further explanation on how TEDs function
1:03:41:00
Underwater footage: Shrimp trawl nets with TEDs
Trawl nets with TEDs, turtles escaping from trawls through TEDs, several
views
1:05:16:00
Underwater footage: Double-Cover Flap TED installed on trawl net
Flap closure action demonstrated by diver, inside of TED, accelerator
funnel
1:06:00:00
Ben Higgins holding juvenile Loggerhead Sea Turtle
At Galveston Lab, explaining TED testing procedure to guests
1:06:35:00
TED Testing operations
Scientists aboard trawler vessel send sea turtles down to divers who release
them into trawl nets and time their escapes.
1:08:35:00
Turtle in shrimp trawl
No divers in shot, turtle passes down trawl, escapes through TED.
1:09:35:00
Commercial Shrimp Trawlers, Gulf of Mexico
Boats on water, nets deployed
1:11:06:00
Docked shrimp trawlers, Freeport, TX
Various angles of vessels, 12:54 fishermen aboard readying nets and turtle
excluder devices (TEDs). 13:39 fisherman sewing flap onto TED opening
1:14:04:00
SOUNDBITE: Leroy Jones, commercial shrimp fisherman
Explains how TEDs have reduced turtle bycatch without reducing shrimp
catch.
1:14:53:00
SOUNDBITE: Harry Davis, commercial shrimp fisherman
Explains how recent TED design outperforms previous designs, quick installation,
no reduction in shrimp catch, pro-conservation statements.
1:16:10:00
SOUNDBITE: Jack Forrester, NOAA Fishery Gear Specialist, former commercial
shrimp fisherman
Explains the need for TEDs, assures fishermen TEDs don't cause shrimp
loss.
1:16:52:00
SOUNDBITE: Jack Forrester, Leroy Jones, Harry Davis
Group shot, advocating cooperation between fishermen & government.
1:18:40:00
NOAA Seal, animated
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