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 …
REPORTS & PROCEEDINGS
National EM Workshops — Reports and Session Videos now Available
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 (Michelin, Sarto, Gillett)
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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Integrating Machine Learning and Electronic Monitoring: A Northeast Regional Workshop Report
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 …
2019 Digital Public Report #1 – Fishermen First Data Ecosystem
2019 Digital Public Report #1- Fisherman First Data Ecosystem This report from the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance and Digital Public presents opportunities and possible models for the New England groundfish community to own, control, manage, and use fisheries data, with a particular focus on governing electronic monitoring data. It is the product of two workshops organized by The Cape …
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Electronic Monitoring Glossary
At the June 2019 Electronic Monitoring Video Data Management Workshop in Seattle, WA, workshop participants identified terms that come up in EM policy discussions that are not always defined in the same way. As a follow-up action, the workshop steering committee compiled this glossary as a resource for consistent EM terminology. This glossary includes terms commonly used when discussing electronic …
