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

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

Ropeless fishing gear is simply too expensive for widespread adoption in American lobster fisheries in the near future. Massachusetts has led ...

Ropeless Fishing Gear Offers Hope for Fishermen and Whales

But all those buoys can pose a danger to marine life. The thick vertical lines that connect buoys to lobster traps on the seafloor can entangle ...

North American lobster industry confronts 'ropeless' traps after whale ...

An emerging technology to fish for lobsters virtually ropeless to prevent whale entanglements is exciting conservationists, but getting a ...

Rope-less Fishing: A vision for how it can work - Ropeless Consortium

Fishing gear entanglements currently account for 82% of documented right whale mortalities, while the remaining 18% are caused by ship strikes. An astounding 85 ...

New fishing gear is crucial for saving whales and fishing incomes

Traditional fishing, lobster, and snow crab gear—with ropes that hang from the ocean's surface to nets or traps far below—are a threat to their ...

The Long Road to Ropeless Fishing - Hakai Magazine

Within the fishing community, ropeless fishing gear has a bad reputation. The equipment, which is currently only approved on an experimental ...

Ropeless Fishing Gear - Center for Biological Diversity

Trap fisheries, like California's commercial Dungeness crab and New England lobster fisheries, are threatening critically endangered populations of right whales ...

Developing Viable On-Demand Gear Systems | NOAA Fisheries

... lobster fishing in contrast to. On-demand, also called “ropeless”, systems use far less rope in the water than traditional gear designs. To ...

Lobster Traps Harm Right Whales. Can High-Tech Gear Help?

Entanglements are a leading cause of death for endangered North Atlantic right whales. Removing fishing lines from the ocean could help ...

Talk about a SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID, Ropeless Lobstering Gear ...

In an effort to address the two main causes of human-induced whale mortality – vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear – the National ...

Developing “Whale-safe” Fishing Gear - Blue Planet Strategy

We are working with the non-profit engineering firm SMELTS (Sea Mammal Education Learning Technology Society) to help them develop “ropeless” fishing gear ...

On-Demand Fishing - Whale & Dolphin Conservation USA

Trap-pot fishing gear is most often used to fish for lobsters, crab, and some types of fish. Traps and/or pots are set on the ocean bottom to fish and are ...

The Road to Ropeless Fishing Gear - Conservation Law Foundation

But a solution is in the works that could allow whales and lobstermen to coexist: ropeless fishing gear. ... fishing) offers a solution to stop right whale ...

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 ...

Daniel McKiernan, director of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, said there are 6,000 commercial lobstermen and 350 right whales, “ ...

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

Ropeless or on-demand technologies offer a potential solution for whales and other protected species that can become entangled in traditional lobster traps and ...

Exploring ropeless gear for sustainable lobster fishing

NOAA's Jennifer S. Goebel pointed out that the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team had recommended that large swaths of the Gulf of Maine ...

Ray Hilborn on LinkedIn: Is ropeless fishing gear a whale-safe ...

This is why there can be no option. And it's why the lobster industry themselves have no credibility due to their inherent conflict of interest.

Rethinking ropes: Can ropeless fishing gear end whale ...

Ropeless fishing gear can prevent whale entanglements and reduce discarded or lost fishing equipment but the cost is a limiting factor.

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 ...