$15 million federal grant will fund fishing tech projects - WXXV News 25

$15 million federal grant will fund fishing tech projects - WXXV News 25

By  NATHAN COLLINS/The New Bedford Light A “third eye” camera for groundfishermen and autonomous robots for lobstermen. That’s, in part, what a group of New England commercial fishing advocates, oceanographic researchers and tech companies hope to build with a $15 million federal grant. The goal of the U.S. National Science Foundation funding, awarded in late July, is to help commercial fishermen catch better, healthier fish and bolster the reg…