Guest Commentary Preventing whale entanglements restoring springtime Dungeness crab fishing with pop-up fishing gear

Guest Commentary Preventing whale entanglements restoring springtime Dungeness crab fishing with pop-up fishing gear- “Fishing gear developers and fishermen pioneered a new way to fish for crab that virtually eliminates risk to migrating and feeding whales, called pop-up gear,” writes Geoff Shester in a Guest Commentary. “This modernized gear design stores the rope and buoy with a string of traps on the seafloor until a release mechanism is triggered, sending the rope to the surface via a flotation device when fishermen are ready to retrieve their catch.”

Source: santacruzsentinel.com