Justin Kay, Peter Kulits, Suzanne Stathatos, Siqi Deng, Erik Young,Sara Beery, Grant Van Horn, and Pietro Perona Abstract: We present the Caltech Fish Counting Dataset (CFC), a large-scale dataset for detecting, tracking, and counting fish in sonar videos. We identify sonar videos as a rich source of data for advancing low signal-to-noise computer vision applications and tackling domain …
Economic Report: Maximized Retention Electronic Monitoring in the Northeast Multispecies Groundfish Fishery
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 …
Report: ICES Working Group on Technology Integration for Fishery-Dependent Data (outputs from 2021 meeting)
The Working Group on Technology Integration for Fishery-Dependent Data (WGTIFD) examines electronic technologies and applications developed to support fisheries-dependent data collection, both on shore and at sea, including electronic reporting (ER), electronic monitoring (EM), positional data systems, and observer data collection. This report provides a summary over the 3-year period of the …
Fishing Smarter: How new technology can help our oceans thrive
https://youtu.be/xjlvPIqAuis Billions of people around the world depend on the oceans as a source of food and livelihoods, with some fisheries under increasing pressure from overfishing. But there’s a promising solution: a digital revolution that can redefine fishing with greater efficiency, profitability and sustainability in mind. “Fishing Smarter” follows the people on the front lines using …
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Perspectives from the water: Utilizing fisher’s observations to inform SNE/MA windowpane science and management
Abstract: Within fisheries, stakeholders often have varying viewpoints regarding natural marine resources, and use different sets information to evaluate their condition. Evaluating a resource with different sets of information can lead to different conclusions. Windowpane flounder (Scophthalmus aquosus) are a managed finfish species in the northwest Atlantic whose regulations have the potential …
New and Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Fisheries: A Comprehensive Landscape Analysis
The oceans are at an inflection point. The excesses of the 20th century — over-exploitation of most of our accessible biological resources, over-pollution by plastics and other chemicals, over-crowding of coastal and marine space by unorganized and competing interests and over-capitalization of extractive industries — are being tempered by a rapidly growing realization that these excesses are …
