Exploring ropeless gear for sustainable lobster fishing

“The signal emitted from the vessel will bounce around the channel, creating a sort of fun-house mirror effect so that multiple versions of the ...

On Thursday, August 29, 2024, NOAA Fisheries hosted a webinar looking at the future of ropeless, or pop-up, gear for the New England lobster fishery.

Is ropeless fishing gear a whale-safe solution for American Lobster?

Ropeless, also called “on-demand” fishing gear aims to reduce vertical lines in the water column for trap fisheries like lobster.

Gear Innovation - Sustainable Fisheries Partnership

Transitioning to on-demand gear can ensure a sustainable future for lobster and crab fisheries and protect whales.

NEFSC Gear Research Series: Lose the Rope, Give Whales Hope

... can become entangled in traditional lobster traps and crab pots. Find out what ropeless is all about from the NEFSC gear research team!

Video: Lose the Rope, Give Whales Hope - NOAA Fisheries

NOAA Fisheries is developing ropeless fishing gear to help prevent marine mammal entanglement off the coast of New England.

Saving Seafood on X: "In late August, @NOAAFisheries hosted a ...

... ropeless” gear for New England's #lobster fishery. https ... Exploring ropeless gear for sustainable lobster fishing - Saving Seafood.

The Road to Ropeless Fishing Gear - Conservation Law Foundation

Ropeless systems (also known as pop-up, buoyless, or on-demand systems) allow lobstermen to retrieve traps from the ocean floor without using the traditional, ...

The futures of right whales and lobstermen are entangled. Could ...

The end goal for these ropeless gear efforts is to give lobstermen ... “We'll never require fishermen to use ropeless gear, but that means ...

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 ...

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 ...

Agenda - Ropeless Consortium

Exploring coexistence through innovation: Testing diverse ropeless gear technologies for sustainable fishing in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Rethinking Canadian Lobster & Snow Crab Fishing - Ocean Wise

The Government has not yet released an official timeline for when fishers will be able to use this gear commercially. Currently fisherfolk can ...

Ropeless Fishing Systems Hold Promise for Fishermen—and Whales

Investment in ropeless fishing now could lead to a future in which the lobster and crab industries use a mix of traditional and ropeless gear to ...

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

Sustainable Seas Technology, INC, is a 501 (c) (3) that helps communities testing ropeless gear collect and disseminate objective, third-party data to help ...

Ropeless fishing traps 'trap' lobster industry | WION Climate Tracker

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'Ropeless' Lobster Fishing Could Save The Whales. Could It Kill The ...

Conservationists hope that fishermen like Rob Martin can prove ropeless fishing can save both the whales and the lobster industry. Many ...

Ropeless fishing to prevent large whale entanglements

U.S. and Canadian federal regulators discussed prospects to use ropeless fishing gear in areas closed to fishing with vertical lines, as well as other options ...

'Ropeless' Fishing Gear Aims to Protect Whales, But Adds ...

But that service extends to only about 5 miles from land-based cell towers, and lobster fishing can take place more than 50 miles from shore.

Sustainable Seas Technology - Coastal Community & Cetacean ...

Ropeless fishing gear, also known as “subsea bouy retrieval systems”, “pop-up” or “on-demand” fishing gear, refers to a fishing system designed to minimize the ...