The Road to Ropeless Fishing Gear

The Road to Ropeless Fishing Gear - Conservation Law Foundation

Ropeless fishing gear can help reduce deadly entanglements by endangered North Atlantic right whales and other ocean wildlife.

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 ...

Draft Ropeless Roadmap: A Strategy to Develop On-Demand ...

The report describes the current state of on-demand, or “ropeless,” fishing and outlines a path for increasing adoption of this technology in commercial ...

Fact Sheet: Ropeless Fishing

Working with fishery managers to revise rules to allow the use of ropeless gear without an exempted fishing permit. ... is the best way to prevent.

The Road to Ropeless Fishing Gear - Conservation Law Foundation

Ropeless gear, which eliminates the dangerous vertical lines, can help our iconic right whale and our iconic Maine fisheries survive.

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

The location of ropeless traps on the sea floor must be identifiable from the surface in the same way that surface buoys mark the location of fixed gear today.

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

Federal authorities say new efforts to convert some types of commercial fishing to ropeless gear that is safer for rare whales will be ...

The Case for Ropeless - National Fisherman

The biggest obstacle to the development of ropeless fishing gear is the intransigence of most of the fishing industry – yes, most. Fishermen ...

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

NOAA lays out plans for expanded testing of ropeless fishing technology · Shimano Tiagra Fishing Reel - TI50A · Penn INT50VIWS Single Speed ...

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

Ropeless fishing gear (also called on-demand) removes vertical fishing lines from the water column until harvest. Instead of identifying buoys ...

Ropeless Fishing Gear - Center for Biological Diversity

Entanglement in fishing gear is a leading threat to endangered whales and sea turtles. Trap fisheries, like California's commercial Dungeness crab and New ...

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 ...

Ropeless Fishing Gear Approved in the South Atlantic - Oceana USA

Ropeless gear has been proven effective at catching black sea bass while also reducing North Atlantic right whale entanglements. The Council ...

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

The promotion of ropeless gear represents the ongoing collaboration between scientists, engineers, and the fishing industry to protect marine life and enhance ...

U.S. charts course for adopting ropeless fishing to reduce whale ...

NOAA's Ropeless Roadmap estimates that on-demand fishing gear can substantially diminish the risk to right whales, while allowing economically ...

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 ...

New 'ropeless' fishing gear could have a massive impact on our ...

Many fishermen say this could be a solution to the fishing industry's harmful effects. ... A new type of "ropeless" fishing gear may save whales ...

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

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

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 ...