The Road to Ropeless Fishing Gear

Will 'ropeless' fishing gear be seaworthy in time to save endangered ...

Richard Riels, who has developed a ropeless system for catching lobster, said it will involve a massive shift in the approach to fishing. “All ...

Past and Current Projects - Sustainable Seas Technology

By allowing ropeless or on-demand fishing gear, fishermen can continue their operations during seasonal closures without needing exemptions. This ensures that ...

Ropeless fishing gear and right whales - Environment America

Ropeless fishing gear employs an inflatable buoy and remote tracking capabilities to allow lobstermen to find the cage and bring it to the ...

Pilot project testing on-demand lobster gear concludes as innovative ...

The largest deployment of on-demand, or “ropeless” fishing gear in the US region of New England recently concluded with up to 30 federally permitted lobster ...

Ropeless Fishing Systems Hold Promise for Fishermen—and Whales

A new method, called ropeless (or buoyless) fishing, allows fishermen to signal their gear to surface with fewer or even no vertical lines.

Gear-lending program has harvesters working through closures and ...

Faced with closures to protect right whales, Canadian commercial fishers are trying ropeless fishing gear via the CanFish Gear Lending ...

NOAA wants to expand 'ropeless' fishing gear pilot to ... - Maine Public

"We know the gear will pop up. We know a fishermen can innovate and find a way to work that on their deck space, so what are solving in terms of ...

Ropeless fishing gear focus of new one-year study by state agency

Ropeless gear comes in many forms, but at its essence it is any device that allows for storage of buoys, rope or lift bags at a depth where they ...

Ropeless gear shows promise in Canadian snow crab fishery, but ...

Ropeless gear stores the buoy at the bottom of the ocean until it's released either by a special acoustic signal from a fishing vessel or a ...

Ropeless fishing gear could save the North Atlantic right whale

Learn more about ropeless fishing gear and what IFAW is doing to prevent the North Atlantic right whale from extinction ...

Legal Petition Seeks Federal Ropeless Rule to Save Whales ...

“Federal officials can save whales and sea turtles from deadly entanglements by requiring the conversion to ropeless fishing gear,” said Kristen ...

Ropeless Fishing - Desert Star Systems - Odoo

The Ropeless Fisher App™ allows for free virtual gear marking to avoid gear overlay. A fisher simply presses a button and the app logs GPS coordinates. You can ...

Urgent Need for Ropeless Fishing

not reporting deployed gear is a way to hide fishing loca- tions ... Marine debris is a substantial problem already, and the use of surface ...

Ropeless Fishing Gear for California Dungeness Crab Will Expand ...

Initial tests of ropeless gear have been ongoing since 2018, but until recently, few fishermen had been interested in using ropeless gear.

Exploring ropeless gear for sustainable lobster fishing

He discussed the establishment of a gear lending library that will allow fishermen to experiment with various types of ropeless gear, offer ...

Feds announce funding push for ropeless fishing gear that spares ...

Nearly $7 million will support the development of ropeless gear for fishing industry members to assess and provide feedback on the technology aimed at saving ...

On-Demand Fishing Gear Feasibility Study - Mass.gov

On-demand fishing gear, also known as 'ropeless gear,' is a type of ... DMF and all of our stakeholders are leading the way towards an ...

Manufacturing Ropeless gear to be used in commercial Lobstering ...

Manufacturing Ropeless gear to be used in commercial Lobstering/Crabbing and other bottom set fishing industries, use of this gear will reduce entanglement of ...

The Journey to Ropeless Fishing: A Decade of Challenges and ...

In 2018, Sawicki approached Cowdrey with a potential lifeline: a proposal to trial "ropeless" fishing gear in their fishery. As part of her ...

New Proposed Vessel Speed Regulations and New Draft Ropeless ...

Our draft Ropeless Roadmap describes the current state of on-demand, or “ropeless,” fishing and outlines a path for increasing adoption of this ...