Develop a vessel transceiver able to display aggregated location data on an onboard GPS chart plotter, providing critical information to avoid gear conflict issues between innovative gear users and other maritime uses. Project will complete development of the product and deploy units with 11 fixed gear and mobile gear fishers to provide accurate, near real-time position data of fixed gear at or below the surface.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Fisheries Innovation Fund
Project Title: A Tool to Display and Share Location Data for Multiple Innovative Fishing Gears (MA, ME)
Organization:
Blue Ocean Gear LLC
Project ID:
0303.24.081348
Description:
Award Amount:
$1233537.86
Location:
Coastal Massachusetts and Maine