Longlining device wins Smart Gear grand prize

A team of two Australian inventors were today awarded the grand prize in the International Smart Gear Competition for a fishing gear innovation that could save thousands of seabirds from dying accidentally on longlines each year. The winners were officially announced in Vigo, Spain at the World Fishing Exhibition.

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