Bill Foster, a fisherman from Hatteras, North Carolina, and Dr Read, proposed the project because the Pamlico Sound near Hatteras was closed to large-mesh gill nets (which are dragged behind a boat like a curtain) for four months a year because too many turtles were being caught by accident.

ECONOMIST: Oceanography

The facility, known as Project Survival's Cat Haven, is normally closed on Wednesdays when the attack happened, and only one other worker was present during the mauling.

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M. plant closed, will be financed as part of a billion-dollar federal and state highway project.

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