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The long road to ropeless fishing
The first step to overcoming fishers' resistance to the new conservation-focused technology is building trust.
In an attempt to protect the withering whale population, government agencies have restricted fishing gear and closed fisheries along the Eastern Seaboard. Cowdrey is just one of 32 members of the small Atlantic sea bass pot fishery—a community of fishers operating from Florida to North Carolina who use traps on vertical lines to catch the bulldog-sized fish. One of them, Bart Chadwick with Sub Sea Sonics, a California developer of on-demand traps, says he’s heard ropeless gear called the worst thing to happen to fishing.
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