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WOODS HOLE, Mass. — A three-month trial in Massachusetts of on-demand, or ropeless, fishing gear ended April 30 in federal areas closed to fishing with vertical lines, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports.
A spate of North Atlantic right whale deaths that began in 2017 shook the scientists who study the critically endangered species. That year, 17 whales died, and the losses prompted the U.S.’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to declare an “unusual mortality event” for them, which remains ongoing. In the years since, at least […]
The Ropeless Roadmap notes that there is a precedent for federal funding to assist with the costs of regulations to protect marine species, and suggested that costs will drop with increased innovation, demand and production.
Federal regulators prepare for widespread adoption of the gear in an effort to protect endangered right whales.