Create a mobile app for marking, sharing, and aggregating location data of on-demand fishing gear with new features that expand upon an existing partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Project will work with the Cape Cod fishing community and regional stakeholders to remove North Atlantic right whale fishing gear entanglement threats and address gear conflict issues by informing vessels of gear deployed beneath them.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Fisheries Innovation Fund
Project Title: Centralized System for On-Demand Fishing Gear Marking (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT)
Organization:
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Project ID:
0303.24.081485
Description:
Award Amount:
$1481311.00
Location:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York