T o such an inoffensive and impressive creature as the loggerhead sea turtle, it must seem as if the world - particularly man's world - conspires against it. Now the reptiles, found along our North Carolina coast, may gain a measure of well-merited protection.
The federal government last week recommended an endangered-species listing for loggerheads in U.S. waters. A principal effect would be that the fishing industry would have to take greater care not to harm them.
Ah, say hard-pressed commercial fishermen - we're endangered too. And they are. But their main foe is the fished-out stocks of more and more food-fish species, not sea turtle protections.
