This final rule establishes a process for owners or operators of vessels using nontrawl gear to request to participate in the EM selection pool and the requirements for vessel owners or operators while in the EM selection pool. This action is necessary to improve the collection of data needed for the conservation, management, and scientific understanding of managed fisheries. Amendments 114/104 …
REPORTS & PROCEEDINGS
Implementing EM for the Alaska Pot Cod Fleet
The North Pacific Fisheries Association (NPFA), a fishermen’s organization, and Saltwater Inc., an observer and EM service provider, received funding in 2016 from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to implement electronic monitoring (EM) in Alaska’s pot cod fishery. The project highlights skipper engagement, integration of observers into the EM program, cross training of skilled …
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Electonic Monitoring in the West Coast Groundfish Fishery: Summary Results from the California Groundfish Collective Exempted Fishing Permit Project 2015-2016
The California Groundfish Collective, The Nature Conservancy and the Environmental Defense Fund recently released a report on our two year project to implement electronic monitoring in the West Coast groundfish fishery. The report, “Electronic Monitoring in the West Coast Groundfish Fishery: Summary results from the California Groundfish Collective Exempted Fishing Permit Project 2015-16”, is …
Electronic Monitoring in the New England Groundfish Fishery: Lessons learned from a collaborative research project (2013-2015)
In 2013 Maine fishermen, NGOs and an EM provider began a three-year EM pilot in the New England groundfish fishery. The premise will sound familiar to others exploring EM: Accurate discard accounting is important for science and management, but is already costly, and is unlikely to get cheaper using only human observers—there must be a better way. The questions: Could accurate discard …
Electronic Monitoring in Fisheries Management – WWF Report 2015
WWF commissioned this report as a contribution to the ongoing discussions surrounding the introduction of new CFP regulations including the Landing Obligation and in the interests of addressing some of the potential misconceptions around the use of Remote Electronic Monitoring systems using cameras. Report in PDF …
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Discarding of cod in the Fully Documented Fisheries trials
Ulrich, Olesen, Bergsson, Egekvist, Hakansson, Dalskov, Kindt-Larsen, Storr-Paulsen; ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72: 1848–1860 Abstract Denmark was the first nation in Europe to promote the use of Fully Documented Fisheries (FDF) through Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) and CCTV camera systems, with pilot schemes in place since 2008. In theory, such a scheme could supplement and even …
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