by Sarah Morash | Jun 7, 2019
Alabama lands a significant percentage of the recreational red snapper in the Gulf and the majority of the recreational anglers funnel through the Perdido Pass. Teem Fish Monitoring Inc. installed a land-based electronic monitoring system (EM) with video at the...
by Sarah Morash | Jun 7, 2019
Ecotrust Canada, SnapIT, and Blue Ocean Gear partnered to develop, deploy, and test an electronic whale interaction mitigation system for the New Brunswick Mid-shore Traditional Snow Crab fleet for the 2018 fishing season. The goal of the project is to help managers...
by Sarah Morash | Jun 7, 2019
New England fish harvesters are entering year four of implementing Electronic Monitoring (EM) as a replacement for human at-sea monitors (ASM) to meet the monitoring and compliance requirements for the 2019 fishing year, May 1, 2019- April 30, 2020 (FY2019). This...
by Sarah Morash | Jun 7, 2019
Fish harvesters in The Quinault Indian Nation’s Dungeness crab fleet are embracing the use of electronic monitoring systems to address the need to track fishing activity, including the location of traps to both retrieve derelict ‘ghost’ gear and attempt to decrease...
by Sarah Morash | Jun 7, 2019
In 2010, the Area A Crab Association partnered with Ecotrust Canada to develop an electronic monitoring (EM) system that was cost effective and would adapt to the changing conditions of the fishery. As one of the most important and lucrative Dungeness crab fisheries...