What Can We Do About It?

Smaller vessels on average lose proportionately more gear. Fishers that are fishing on the bottom of the ocean tend to lose more gear than those fishing in the mid water or on the surface of the ocean. So when there's bad weather and fishers aren't getting that much money, they tend to fish in marginal conditions. And so some of the things that we can do is to ensure that fishers have the best equipment possible.