The prawn fishery in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean is not managed well yet (with exceptions, e.g. Suriname). In many areas the fishing pressure is too high. Fishing is done with [bottom otter trawls] with high bycatchBycatch:
Species caught next to species targeted for fishery. By-catches can consist of non-commercial species and species that are too small, and can be kept (this part is sometimes called by-product) or thrown back into the sea (discards). and discardsDiscards:
Unwanted by-catch, which is thrown back because there is no quota, the market price is too low, or the fish is below the legal minimum landing size. Discards can be alive or dead.. Bycatch of sea turtles can be prevented by escape hatches, but those are not mandatory everywhere.