Ted

This study was carried on as a pilot test in order to verify the impact of the use of the TED in shrimp and fish catches in four consecutive days in a traditional shrimp trawling ground between 26[degrees]13'-27[degrees]07'S and 48[degrees]06'-48[degrees]24'W.

One net was equipped with a TED and the other without the device.

Such was the domination of Teds Jo in this event his aggregate winning distances total was over 25 lengths.

"I'm lucky to have pups of the class of Teds Jo and Droopys Shearer at the moment and it's incredibly exciting.

Most TEDs consist of a panel of metal bars inserted into a trawling net at an angle leading up to a hole in the top of the net.

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) estimates that TEDs have slashed by 67 percent the annual mortality rate of sea turtles caught in trawling nets in U.S.

Readers of a certain age may remember Ted from numerous support slots with punk and new wave acts.

Ted's thing was not to make audiences laugh but to get up their noses.