SALT WIRE – Five years after setting out to find a solution to the problem of whales getting tangled in fishing gear, a Nova Scotia company is ready to move from research and development phase to manufacturing.
Ashored Innovations has been trialing and testing a ‘gear on command’ system
since 2018. Stephen Jones, chief business development officer with the company, said with a few more software and hardware tweaks they will be ready to start selling ready-to-use systems to East Coast fishing fleets.
“We have the capacity to build 15 units a week. By the spring of 2024 we hope to
be building 40 units a week,” Jones told SaltWire this week…