EM4Fish
Monitoring the evolution of fisheries management
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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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 …
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 …
Here are the recently-released final report and session videos from both the East and West Coast National EM Workshops. The workshops provided a platform for different regions and fisheries to present updates on program successes and challenges, and for all participants to discuss development and implementation of EM programs. Thanks again to everyone who worked to organize and stage these …
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Roadmap for Electronic Monitoring in RFMOs This report presents an overview of some of the key steps and design choices that fishery managers need to consider when designing and implementing an EM program. There have been a handful of reports that summarize the current status of EM in fisheries, and toolkits that outline a process for developing an EM program. However, none of them have …
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On January 23, 2020 the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), with its partners CVision AI and New England Marine Monitoring, hosted an electronic monitoring (EM) workshop entitled “Incorporating Machine Learning into Northeast EM programs”. The goal of the workshop was to convene EM project stakeholders, AI specialists, NOAA staff, and data specialists to focus on the potential uses of machine …
