{"id":4317,"date":"2019-04-12T08:39:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2019-04-12T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T12:39:11","slug":"fishermen-still-not-embracing-personal-flotation-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/2019\/04\/12\/fishermen-still-not-embracing-personal-flotation-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishermen Still Not Embracing Personal Flotation Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/03\/lobster-traps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2894\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/03\/lobster-traps-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"lobster traps\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/03\/lobster-traps-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/03\/lobster-traps-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/03\/lobster-traps-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/03\/lobster-traps-105x65.jpg 105w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/03\/lobster-traps-317x195.jpg 317w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/03\/lobster-traps-423x261.jpg 423w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/03\/lobster-traps-634x390.jpg 634w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/03\/lobster-traps-846x521.jpg 846w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/03\/lobster-traps-951x586.jpg 951w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/03\/lobster-traps.jpg 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/><\/a>Island Institute<\/em> reported that most deaths among lobstermen from 2010-2014 were related to falls overboard (50 percent) or vessel disasters (30 percent), and based on reports, none of the recovered victims was wearing a lifejacket. A Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety campaign this spring will send two vans to ports in Maine and Massachusetts, and staff will present lifejacket options at a one-time discount and will allow fishermen to try them on, get information about the various options available, and learn about additional technology that can improve fishermen\u2019s chances of recovery and survival in the event of a fall overboard. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islandinstitute.org\/working-waterfront\/pfd-or-not-pfd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Island Institute reported that most deaths among lobstermen from 2010-2014 were related to falls overboard (50 percent) or vessel disasters (30 percent), and based on reports, none of the recovered victims was wearing a lifejacket. A Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety campaign this spring will send two vans to ports in Maine and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"5","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":5,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/author\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":5,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"News about AgrAbility","parent":0,"count":258,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":258,"category_description":"News about AgrAbility","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4318,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}