1.   Sadly, she has personally seen the destruction from shrimp trawlers.

2.   Shrimp trawlers were required to use larger turtle excluder devices to allow the massive leatherbacks to escape drowning in the nets.

3.   Shrimp trawlers discard far more dead fish by weight than the shrimp they keep, says Heneman.

4.   Spotting a bottlenose dolphin in the ocean, usually near shrimp trawlers, is another highlight.

5.   Some crew members stranded aboard a Lithuanian shrimp trawler for six months were to head home Friday after receiving some of their back wages.