Will 'Ropeless' Fishing Gear Save the Endangered Right Whale?

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.

“Ropeless” fishing gear that minimises the number of vertical lines in the water that ensnare right whale has emerged as a potential “home run” solution to the ...

New fishing gear is crucial for saving whales and fishing incomes

The good news is that advancements in fishing techniques can save countless whales and other species that are victims of bycatching (animals ...

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

Endangered North Atlantic right whales are killed and injured from rope entanglement ... The race to produce ropeless fishing gear has been ...

What Will It Cost to Create a Safer Ocean for Right Whales?

Ropeless fishing gear (also called “on-demand,” “pop-up,” and “buoyless” systems) offers a promising solution to entanglements by eliminating ...

WHOI working to help save critically endangered North Atlantic right ...

Ropeless fishing technology —the ability to retrieve gear without running a line from the surface to the bottom —presents a possible solution that could be both ...

Behind the Scenes: Inside Tech Efforts to Protect Right Whales from ...

In recent years, a new technology known as on-demand gear has emerged to minimize rope from lobster traps and help fishers get back on the water ...

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

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

Ropeless Fishing Gear - Center for Biological Diversity

Entanglement in fishing gear is a leading threat to endangered whales and sea turtles. ... endangered populations of right whales, humpbacks, blue whales ...

Funding the push for ropeless fishing gear to help endangered ...

Efforts to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale are moving forward as millions of dollars in funding are now being used to develop ropeless ...

Ropeless Consortium – Towards whales without rope entanglements

Fishing gear entanglements cause the majority of right whale deaths, and also contribute to declining calving rates through the prolonged health effects of non- ...

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 ...

Ropeless fishing gear and right whales - Environment America

Thankfully, we have the technology we need to save this species — we just need to use it. The first step toward saving right whales from ...

North Atlantic Right Whale: Road to Recovery - NOAA Fisheries

Primary threats to the species—and drivers of the UME—are entanglement in fishing gear and vessel strikes. Climate change is also affecting every aspect of ...

Ropeless fishing to prevent large whale entanglements

The top threat to the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale (NARW) is entanglement in vertical lines used in trap/pot fishing gear. Over the last ten ...

Ropeless fishing tech could help save rare whale, say scientists

Virtual buoys and time triggered traps reduce risk to endangered North Atlantic right whale, but reactions among fishers in US and Canada ...

Priority Investments for North Atlantic Right Whale Recovery

NOAA Fisheries received a historic $82 million in funding under the Biden-Harris Administration's Inflation Reduction Act to conserve and recover endangered ...

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 ...

How new fishing technology could help save North Atlantic right ...

Fishing-gear entanglements are the leading cause of death for the endangered whales. But new ropeless gear could change that.

Can Ropeless Fishing Gear Help Save the North Atlantic Right ...

Ropeless gear operates without these lines, eliminating or drastically reducing the risk of entanglement by whales. Ropeless systems also have ...