On-Demand Gear Guide: development and implementation of on-demand fishing in the Greater Atlantic Region

This guide outlines the current state of knowledge, and identifies the tasks required and likely timelines that will allow fishing with on-demand gear by the end of 2028 in the Greater Atlantic Region. While on-demand research and implementation is under development elsewhere, this guide focuses on fisheries from Virginia through Maine and on efforts to reduce entanglement deaths and serious injury to North Atlantic right whales.