The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has issued a report to the New England Fisheries Management Council that estimates the expected costs for installing and operating EM systems on one hundred groundfish vessels for three years. Using data from the fishing year 2017 groundfish EM program, TNC contracted with CapLog Group LLC to develop the report's detailed projections, meant to inform the Council, …
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Design Considerations to Optimize Monitoring for Canada’s Pacific Region Fisheries
McElderry, H and Meintzer, P. 2019. Unpublished report prepared for Fisheries and Oceans Canada by Archipelago Marine Fisheries Ltd., Victoria, BC. Canada. 40p. Download paper Executive Summary This paper is intended for the broad community of stakeholders who are involved in the design, implementation, operation, and evaluation of fishery monitoring programs. Although we focus on Canada’s …
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Technologies for Improving Fisheries Monitoring
A key barrier to achieving successful fisheries management is the widespread lack of fisheries monitoring. This guide describes some of the major fishery monitoring challenges that can be addressed with current or soon-to-be available technology, the barriers to the uptake of monitoring technology, and a human-centered design process intended to identify and address these barriers in specific …
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Designing and Implementing Electronic Monitoring Systems for Fisheries
Interest in the development of Electronic Monitoring (EM) programs for monitoring fisheries has been increasing rapidly over the last decade, resulting in some successful (and some unsuccessful) full scale implementations. This guide identifies 9 essential ‘elements of success’ from 20 EM case studies, a study of the literature, and interviews with key stakeholders, to provide a practical guide …
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Final Report on Development and Usage of REM systems along with electronic data transfer as a measure to monitor compliance with the Landing Obligation
Final Report on Development and Usage of REM systems along with electronic data transfer as a measure to monitor compliance with the Landing Obligation A final report presented by Heiðrikur Bergsson, Kristian S. Plet-Hansen, et al. Download PDF …
Final report on Catch Quota Management and Choke Species – 2014
Final report on Catch Quota Management and Choke Species - 2014 A paper by Kristian S. Plet-Hansen, Heiðrikur Bergsson, et al. Download PDF …
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