WHALE ENTANGLEMENTS

Current fixed-gear fishing methodologies involve buoys on the ocean surface tethered to traps (or trawls of traps) on the ocean floor, with their tethered ropes close to the surface causing the marine animal entanglements 140,000 protected marine animals die entangled in fishing gear annually 83 percent of the North Atlantic Right Whale population show scars from fishing gear entanglements. Over half the population of NARW experience multiple entanglements and ultimately perish from these interactions.