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Net benefit: using a turtle excluder device in the Adriatic Sea

Marine biologist Laura Aiudi is working on a net that saves the lives of endangered species — but still protects the livelihood of fishermen.
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Laura Aiudi, marine biologist on a trawler off Cesenatico's coast, testing the turtle excluder modified net.

Laura Aiudi is a field researcher at the Cetacea Foundation in Riccione, Italy. Credit: Elisabetta Zavoli for Nature

I’m from a fishing family. My grandfather was a fisherman when he was a young man, working out of Fano, the Italian town where I grew up and still live. I’m used to the smell of fish.

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Nature 604, 210 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00930-w

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  • Correction 25 April 2022: An earlier version of this story erroneously affiliated Laura Aiudi with the University of Pisa.

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