north atlantic right whale
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Sustainable Seas Technology Update: A Journey from 2022 to 2023
The past two years have been transformative but incredibly busy for Sustainable Seas Technology. Here’s a look back at our key milestones and the progress we’ve made in advancing ropeless fishing gear. 1. Advancements in Ropeless Fishing Gear Ropeless fishing gear has been at the forefront of our efforts. Traditional fishing methods, particularly those involving…
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Sustainable Seas Technology Update: A Journey from 2022 to 2023
The past two years have been transformative but incredibly busy for Sustainable Seas Technology. Here’s a look back at our key milestones and the progress we’ve made in advancing ropeless fishing gear. 1. Advancements in Ropeless Fishing Gear Ropeless fishing gear has been at the forefront of our efforts. Traditional fishing methods, particularly those involving…
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The Need for Harmony
Ropeless Gear Testing Protocols Mark Baumgartner’s presentation at the 2019 Ropeless Consortium meeting in Portland, ME inspired me to focus my fieldwork efforts on three key points he made regarding ropeless gear testing. The road to hell is paved with good intentions “Ropeless gear needs to be safe for fishermen to use and safe for…
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Ropeless IS Real- the report
There are more than one million vertical lines off the North American coast of the Atlantic Ocean used by the lobster and crab fishing industry (Hayes et al., 2018). Pot/trap fishing gear, specifically the vertical lines attached to traps, poses an ongoing danger to both mariners and marine mammals, such as right whales. In fact,…
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We have a chance to fix things.
“If I seem like a radical, it may be because I see things that others do not. I think if others had the opportunity to witness what I’ve seen in my lifetime…I would not seem like a radical at all. We have a chance to fix things.” -Her Deepness, Sylvia Earle. Mission Blue It has…
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Confirmed North Atlantic Right Whale Entanglement Deaths as of 2019
Above data appears in map form as published by NOAA’s Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team. Statistical data available to date indicates that these numbers reflect possibly less than 6% of all North Atlantic Right Whales killed as a result (either direct or indirect) of entanglement in man-made gear. This is a staggering number considering…