Nexuiz kill the whale7/6/2023 Many lobstermen, though, say they prefer the closures to the technological leap they would have to make to adopt ropeless fishing. More protections from the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, which some fishermen consider burdensome, are still pending.Ĭonservationists hope that fishermen like Rob Martin can prove ropeless fishing can save both the whales and the lobster industry. To save the whales from the brink, state authorities have instituted seasonal fishing closures in waters off New England. Today, with an estimated 370 North Atlantic right whales remaining, the species is classified by the IUCN Red List as critically endangered, one step from extinction. In fact, more than 80% of right whales have been entangled in fishing gear at least once, the majority multiple times, according to a report from the New England Aquarium. Rope entanglement is a leading cause of death for the mammals that can weigh as much as 70 tons. Rob Martin, 56, fishes off his boat, the Resolve, in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts.īy using this technology, Martin eliminates the need to use vertical ropes which can be deadly for North Atlantic right whales diving for food. Martin looks out across the water quietly, waiting for something to appear. Originally released for the PC in 2005 (and last updated in 2009), the remade Quake mod delivers everything you would expect in terms of gameplay. In seconds, the app lets out two quick beeps confirming that somewhere down below an air tank inside a trap is inflating a balloon that lifts the trap to the surface. Nexuiz is an arena shooter through and through. "I'm hitting the release command," he explains. With one hand Martin reaches for a pair of waterproof overalls and with the other he grabs his iPhone to open an app that sends acoustic signals to his traps 50 feet underwater. "Everything's ready to go," he calls out as the boat idles about a half-mile outside the Cape Cod Canal, near where he last dropped his traps. Just as Cape Cod lobstermen have done for centuries, Martin used to check his traps by looking for buoys connected to cages on the ocean floor by ropes.īut his buoys are gone and he is one of a handful of Massachusetts lobstermen testing ropeless fishing systems. It was big when I first got it and now it seems small," he says while warming up inside the cabin on a cold morning. Rob Martin, who has been fishing off his boat for the last 29 years, and his partner haul up a 150-pound end trap while ropeless lobster fishing in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts.Īfter three decades of fishing for lobsters in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, Rob Martin knows his boat inside and out.
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