Deployment: NEC-LL2006-1

GOMLF, in consultation with MER and GoMOOS, worked with a commercial lobsterman in Jonesport, Maine, to deploy a variety of measuring devices near or on his lobster gear that would measure bottom current velocity and direction as well as the arc of the floating groundline on the gear. GOMLF designed the project to take place in Downeast Maine because the combined coastal current and tide in that area is known to be strong enough to pull 60” poly-balls under the surface, and because lobstermen in that area suspected that the strong current below the surface lowered their floating groundlines in such a way as to reduce the risk of entanglement. The field work began in June 2007 and was scheduled to run for six months.