Study Measures Drag from Fishing Gear Entanglements (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Study Measures Drag from Fishing Gear Entanglements

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Julie van der Hoop (left) of WHOI and David Morin from NOAA Fisheries prepare a gear set for testing on the WHOI vessel R/VTioga. The researchers used a load cell to measure the drag forces on various types of fishing gear collected from past right whale entanglements.

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Michael Moore, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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