A report by Kanae Tokunaga, Vivianne Mazzocco and Elizabeth Moore, of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, published April 2022.
This report focuses on the successes, failures, and key hurdles of the proposed program and detail the ability of the Maximized Retention Electronic Monitoring (MREM) program to meet proposed data collection and accountability objectives. The economic report estimates the cost and benefit of expanding the scope of the MREM program, using a comprehensive data set from the first three years of the MREM program.