Ropeless Fishing Traps Being Considered to Help Save Right Whales
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [THE CHRONICLE HERALD] TOM AYERS - September 29, 2017
Ropeless lobster and crab fishing traps might help save North Atlantic right whales and other large marine animals from entanglement, injury and death, but fishermen will probably have to be convinced.
Engineers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts are currently testing ropeless gear and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans is considering the idea as one way to help reduce the deaths of endangered right whales off Canada’s east coast.
Lobster and crab traps are typically set on the sea bottom with buoy markers floating on the surface, attached by ropes. Whales and turtles have been known to get entangled...
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