1.   The crew swung the outrigger until it pointed over the side of the boat, then dropped the trawling net from it.

2.   The devices function as sort of burlesque escape hatches that eject large objects, including turtles, from the throat of a sock-shaped trawling net.

3.   At issue is a U.S. embargo on shrimp imports from India, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Thailand, which use trawling nets that trap endangered sea turtles.

4.   Malaysia claims Washington should have fully repealed a law that bans imports of shrimp from countries which use trawling nets that trap the turtles.

5.   The Asian country had claimed that Washington should have fully repealed a law banning imports of shrimp from countries which use trawling nets that trap turtles.

6.   The ruling was against a U.S. law forbidding the importation of shrimp caught with trawling nets and equipment that harm endangered species of sea turtles.

7.   The turtle protection devices are like trap doors fitted on the top of the trawling net.

8.   Purse seine boats use large trawling nets to catch tuna while longliners basically use hook and line fishing methods to catch tuna.