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Handing Off the Wheel
Well, the authors we had lined up for this month’s feature article needed a little extra time, so I’ll take this opportunity to talk about some changes and new features on the way. As of March 31st, I’ll be handing off EM4Fish to my friend Huff McGonigal. Quite a few of you in the U.S. fisheries space already know Huff, as he’s been involved in many aspects of marine science and policy for 25-plus years. We met as consultants to Environmental Defense Fund’s Oceans program, where we worked to advance quota-based management policies. We also helped coordinate the 2014 and 2016 national EM workshops, which eventually—through some twists and turns and a successful grant application—served as a springboard for creating this platform.
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Insights from three NGOs collaborating to improve crew welfare in high-seas fisheries with electronic monitoring and WiFi
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Kim Rogovin
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Huff McGonigal
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Michael Stanley
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Craig S. Rose
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Navcast
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Kelly Harrell
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Stuart Fulton
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PescaData
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Center for Fisheries Electronic Monitoring at MOTE
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Ricardo Lemos
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Megan Johnston
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Benjamin Woodward
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Dr. Hilario Mumua
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Oyster Recovery Partnership
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Pfleger Institute for Environmental Research
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Chugey Sepulveda
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Michael Wang
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Mike Orcutt
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Gord Snell
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Pablo Torralbo
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Andrew Petersen
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Erik Young
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Kara Brydson
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Chuck Anderson
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Melissa Garren
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George Lapointe
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Mark Michelin
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Kate Haapala
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Net Gains Alliance
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SINAY
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Conepe
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Deckhand Electronic Logbook (Real Time Data North America, LLC)
Deckhand Electronic Logbook (Real Time Data North America, LLC)
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Harbor Light Software
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THALOS
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Teem Fish Monitoring Inc.
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Fran Karp
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Joshua Wiersma
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Chris Cusack
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Francisco Blaha
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Estibaliz Martinez
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Gulf of Maine Research Institute
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Fish Trax
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Trace Register
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SnapIT
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Satlink
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Integrated Monitoring
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FlyWire
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CVision AI
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Anchor Lab
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Shark Bycatch Mitigation Decision Support Tool
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The dual purpose of high spatiotemporal resolution of electronic monitoring data in fisheries: sustain fisheries and enhance protection of sensitive habitats
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Electronic monitoring in tuna fisheries: Strengthening monitoring and compliance in the context of two developing states
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EM and ET Glossary
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EM4Minutes with Sean Simmons of Angler’s Atlas
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HafsAuga MobileEM: mobile electronic monitoring for fisheries management and research
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Electronic monitoring by the Danish Fisheries Control, 2021 – 2024
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Optimising the review of electronic monitoring information for management of commercial fisheries




