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Fleet Perspectives – The West Coast EM Program Needs to Evolve with the Fishery

By Lisa Damrosch

Aug 27, 2026

Electronic monitoring has been part of the West Coast groundfish fishery for more than fifteen years. Fishermen have spent those years doing what fishermen do: adapting. They installed cameras, changed where and how catch is handled, learned new reporting systems, troubleshot equipment, and worked with managers and providers to make the program function on real fishing vessels. The program has not adapted at the same pace.

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