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

WASHINGTON— Entanglement in fishing gear has become a leading threat to endangered whales and sea turtles on all U.S. coastlines.

Why Everything You've Heard About 'Ropeless' Crab Fishing being ...

With the Northeast poised to begin testing a large variety of ropeless fishing gear, I want to offer my insights on an editorial that has been bothering me ...

Decline in on-demand fishing gear costs with learning - Frontiers

... ropeless” fishing gear has been presented as a potential solution. ... whale entanglement risk reduction for the gulf of Maine American lobster fishery.

New Right Whale Measures Not Making Friends With The ...

The plan closes the area to fishing from October through January but allows buoyless or “ropeless” fishing – a new and experimental technology ...

This fishing gear can help save whales. What will it take for ...

The new gear has the potential to help whales and fishermen alike, but it isn't a quick fix. There are technical issues to iron out, including ...

The Delicate Balance Between Helping and Harming

To add to fish harvester's frustrations, DFO's newest solution to whale entanglements simply doesn't work in the North Atlantic. By 2024, the ...

High Tech Ropeless Lobster Traps | Downeast Boat Forum

Will not work! People will be setting over each other left and right. Anyone that thinks this is a good idea obviously has never fish trawl ...

A special kind of NOAA STUPID - Ropeless Lobster Gear that ...

NOAA lays out plans for expanded testing of ropeless fishing technology​ ... In their latest effort to protect endangered right whales, federal ...

Whale-safe Fishing Gear - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Two Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) engineers have invented a lobster trap device that they say could help whales avert ...

5112 Ropeless Fishing System - EdgeTech

This specific system was designed from the ground up with the input of lobster fishermen with the intent of alleviating possible whale entanglement and other ...

Canadian and American lobster industry confronts 'ropeless' traps ...

Injuries to endangered North Atlantic Right Whales ensnared in fishing gear have fueled a prominent campaign by environmental groups to ...

June 2018 Fishermen's Voice

According to the report, “There is some new technology in ropeless fishing. One in particular is used in the Rock Lobster fishery in New Zealand called the 'on ...

Ropeless Systems, Inc.

Our ropeless fishing technology allows fishermen to steam to their location, see their traps' actual locations on a chartplotter, and call them to the surface ...

Maine lobster gear ID'd in rope wrapped around dead right whale's tail

Lobster fishing gear from Maine state waters appears to have caused the death of a critically endangered female right whale found dead on Martha's Vineyard ...

New England Gear Innovation Fund

$625,500. Build community capacity of Maine fishermen to engage in the discussion of innovative fishing gear technology, interoperability solutions, and ...

American lobster Lobster seafood recommendation - Seafood Watch

... Read press statements on assessments impacting the North Atlantic right whale.This assessment does not cover ropeless or on-demand fishing gear.

The Ecological Cost of the US American Lobster Fishery

and fish with ropeless fishing gear are able to set their gear ... Ropeless gear aimed at preventing right whale deaths may be commercially viable soon.

The reality of 'ropeless' | Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance

The idea is to get rid of all vertical lines and buoys used to mark fishing gear like lobster pots, and replace them with remote, wireless, ...

Lobster Limbo: Balancing Sustainability and Supporting Atlantic ...

Ropeless (or Rope-On-Command) Fishing Gear eliminates the use of the vertical rope lines responsible for whale entanglements. Instead, these ...

Pot and Trap Gear Innovation - Bycatch Solutions Hub

Ropeless systems are trap-like cages attached to a string of pots or traps that do not have a buoy line during their deployment. While the vessel does not have ...