Round 3: Fishing Gear Mini-Grants Program (2004) – 2 Funded Projects

Project Title

Funding Received

Project Summary

Final Report

Design and Construction of a Knotless Release Link

$19,200

Design and construct a knotless line cutter as an integral part of a plastic buoy stick using quick attach technology. Test and record hydrodynamic coefficients over a range of travel velocities that might be associated with an entangled whale.

No Final Report. Project Terminated.

Remote Fishing Gear Data Identification

$17,000

Develop and test a microchip interrogator (that can be used by aircraft or standoff surface craft) to identify the radio frequency identification (RFID) chip technology developed for fishing gear rope identification (“Investigations into the Adaptation of Microchip Technology to the Identification of Fishing Lines”).

No Final Report. Project Terminated.