The oceans are at an inflection point. The excesses of the 20th century — over-exploitation of most of our accessible biological resources, over-pollution by plastics and other chemicals, over-crowding of coastal and marine space by unorganized and competing interests and over-capitalization of extractive industries — are being tempered by a rapidly growing realization that these excesses are …
REPORTS & PROCEEDINGS
Recommendations for Electronic Monitoring Program Design and Requests for Proposal: Guidance from Electronic Monitoring Service Providers
FROM THE REPORT: In February 2020, at the National Electronic Monitoring Workshop in Seattle, several electronic monitoring (EM) service providers initiated a conversation about interoperability and other opportunities for pre-competitive collaboration. This conversation led to the creation of this project which has brought together many of the world’s EM service providers. CEA Consulting …
Outputs from 2020 meeting of the Working Group on Technology Integration for Fishery-Dependent Data
ICES Scientific Reports. 3: 03. 54 pp. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.7684 Editors: Brett Alger • Lisa Borges Authors: Amos Barkai • Ana Rita Fraga • Brad McHale • Brant McAfee • Brett Alger • Brian Cowan • Carole Nedig Christopher McGuire • Christopher Zimmermann • Daniel Linden • Daniel Roberts • Edwin van Helmond • Farron Wallace • Helen Holah • Howard McElderry • Jason Bryan • Jørgen …
Improving Net Gains: Past, Present and Future
From the Introduction: Modern fishery information systems are critical to achieving the full potential of the United States’ fisheries. Four years have passed since the Fishing Data Innovation Taskforce, a diverse coalition of fishery stakeholders, issued recommendations to elevate and address the most pressing data modernization needs. The resulting 2017 Improving Net Gains report spurred the …
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What’s in the Net?: Using camera technology to monitor, and support mitigation of, wildlife bycatch in fisheries
Course, G.P., Pierre, J., and Howell, B.K., 2020. What’s in the Net? Using camera technology to monitor, and support mitigation of, wildlife bycatch in fisheries. Published by WWF. From the executive summary: Sustainable fisheries management is vital for the livelihoods and wellbeing of people all over the world, and for the health and survival of marine ecosystems and species. Remote …
Catalyzing the Growth of Electronic Monitoring in Fisheries: Progress Update August 2020
Download report In 2018, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and CEA Consulting (CEA) released the report, “Catalyzing the Growth of Electronic Monitoring in Fisheries.” The report highlighted that many of the world’s fisheries lack accurate data about what is happening on the water. Even in fisheries with human observers, low cover-age rates, basic human limitations that prevent viewing everything …