Yes.
As an association, we were able to get most of the weak gear out to our members this year, minus the breakaway links. We had sleeves, weak rope and a different type of sleeve. With the unique way that our single trap fishery.... It's the same as the PEIFA and other areas in the gulf. We fish fairly shallow jagged shorelines, which caused some of the gear to be not easy to haul. We ended up losing some due to chafing and stuff, depending on where we were instructed to see if this weak rope would work.
As for the end line on demand gear, the harvester we have testing it has actually tested three different versions. One requires two sets of rope. One you bundle up in a bag and it's released automatically when you get close to it. He hasn't had much success with that. He's had another one that requires an automatic coiling machine aboard, which is approximately $12,000 to the harvester to purchase the coiling machine and $4,000 for each buoy. For example, in his snow crab fishery he would have to have 24 buoys and a coiler. If we ever had it seated in our lobster fishery we'd have 275 buoys and a $12,000 coiler. Economically, it does not make sense.