{"id":11224,"date":"2009-04-01T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2009\/04\/01\/global-competition-seeks-to-net-smartest-hook-line-and-sinker\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T11:34:00","slug":"global-competition-seeks-to-net-smartest-hook-line-and-sinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/fishing-gear\/global-competition-seeks-to-net-smartest-hook-line-and-sinker\/","title":{"rendered":"Global competition seeks to net smartest hook, line and sinker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Smart Gear Competition seeks real-world fishing solutions that allow fishermen to fish &#8216;smarter&#8217; &#8211; better targeting their intended catch while safeguarding birds, dolphins, sea turtles and other marine life from being unintentionally caught.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s grand prize winners were a team of US inventors from Rhode Island, who designed fishing gear to capture haddock while reducing the accidental netting of other marine species, such as North Atlantic cod.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is open to eligible entrants from any profession, including fishermen, professional gear manufacturers, teachers, students, engineers, scientists and backyard inventors.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the $30,000 grand prize there will also be two $10,000 runner-up prizes and a special $7,500 East-African Marine Eco-Regional Prize for entries specifically addressing serious bycatch issues in coastal East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The competition ends on 30 June 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $US 57,500 prize fund is on offer for the best new fishing gears designed to reduce bycatch in the fourth International Smart Gear Competition, launched by WWF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-gear"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11224"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}