By Nancy Beal

After inclement weather canceled a planned demonstration of alternative lobster gear in Jonesport on Feb. 6, the event, which was the first public demonstration of that gear by the state’s Department of Marine Resources, took place on Feb. 18. Its purpose was to allow fishermen to put their hands on gear that is being tested in preparation for an expected future ban on the fixed vertical ropes that lobstermen have historically strung between their traps on the seafloor and a buoy on the water’s surface used to locate their traps.