Technology might be trumping old-school fishing tackle, but an Ottawa biology professor is calling for limits on the increasingly fancy lures and high-tech gear. Drones like this are being used to carry fishing lures past the breaking surf in some coastal areas, Cooke says. (CBC)Now Cooke is also a fisheries scientist and professor of environmental science and biology at Carleton University. But I'm also a fisheries scientist and I care deeply about making sure that we have sustainable and responsible fisheries." Kyer's unsurprised by Cooke's claim that Canada's fishing gear market nets $8 billion a year.

Source: CBC News April 23, 2021 08:00 UTC