Reidar's Manufacturing in New Bedford, Mass., has long been involved in the effort to reduce the bycatch of winter flounder and small cod ,in bottom trawls.A couple of years ago, Reidar's designed and built a rock-hopper sweep — with financial support and encouragement from the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation in Saunderstown, R.I., and the University of Massachusetts School of Marine Science in Dartmouth — which had some success releasing flounder. Exit windows in the sweep allowed flounder to leave the net, while targeted species like haddock and pollock went into the net.
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