New Technology on Display at Ropeless Consortium
Industry advances were on display at the Ropeless Consortium meeting at the University of Southern Maine in Portland last fall.
Presentations on available ropeless fishing products, prototypes in development, testing results from the past year, as well as discussion of progress overcoming regulatory challenges, fisheries outreach, establishing experimental fisheries and funding opportunities and challenges were on the agenda.
“There have been some advances,” said Colin Sproul, ...
Ropeless Consortium Expands Information Exchange
Interest in ropeless fishing gear continues to grow.
Presentations on ropeless gear retrieval and marking
systems, experimental gear testing, experimental fisheries, regulatory and
policy change, market interests and investment opportunities were on the agenda
when the international Ropeless Consortium met for its annual meeting at the
New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, MA on November 6.
Comprised of scientists, conservationists, researchers,
fishermen and “like-minded people ...
