Coastal News Today | RI - 'Ropeless' Fishing Gear Aims to Protect Whales, But Adds Complications, Costs

A handful of Rhode Island lobster fishermen are working this season with federal regulators to use and study some complex and early stage equipment that is intended, eventually, to greatly reduce entanglements and deaths of whales.

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