Old Oregon fishing nets sent to Ukraine to protect against drones

Old Oregon fishing nets sent to Ukraine to protect against drones

Kurt Cochran has moored his 85-foot fishing trawler, New Life, to the docks in Newport.His nets are fine. The boat is fine. But getting the various electronics on board to talk to each other is proving difficult.“We’ve got a lot of electronics down on our nets,” Cochran explained.Nets on a boat this size cost about $80,000. For a larger vessel, they can be a quarter of a million dollars. And they bristle with electronics.“We have catch indicator…