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This act provided many protections to turtles such as punishment to people who: take, disturb, destroy, sell, or harass turtles, eggs, or nests.
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A law made it so that all fishing boats in the US who are using nets must implement turtle exclusion devices so that turtles do not die as a result of being caught as bycatch.
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In 1998, about 60,000 turtle nests were counted. This is the highest that has been recorded in the survey of florida beaches between 1989 and 2005
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In 2005, only about 35,000 turtle nests were counted. This is astonishingly low as compared to the all time high of 60,000 just 7 years prior in 1998.