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Plan to save sea turtles from shrimp boats scaled way back

A plan to make more shrimpers include sea turtle escape hatches in their nets has been vastly scaled back , federal regulators announced, potentially contributing to the deaths of more than 1,000 of the animals each year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a rule that would apply to fewer than 1,100 inshore shrimp boats ...

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