Could trawler cams help save world's dwindling fish stocks?

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How was your seafood caught? A boom in the use of on-deck cameras to monitor U.S. fishing vessels makes bait-to-plate transparency easier than ever. But there's a catch: the bulk of our seafood is hooked by foreign ships where no such monitoring exists.

come from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission.

A recent study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that when an observer was on deck New England“The fact is human observers are annoying,” Hager said. “Nobody wants them there, and when they aren’t being threatened or bribed, the data they provide is deeply flawed because it’s a proven fact that fishermen behave differently when they’re being watched.”

“This isn’t your grandfather’s fishery anymore,” said Captain Al Cottone, who recently had cameras installed on his 45-foot groundfish trawler, the Sabrina Maria. “If you’re going to sail, you just turn the cameras on and you go.” The stakes are especially high in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean — home to the world’s largest tuna fishery. Observer coverage of the Pacific’s longline fleet, which numbers around 100,000 boats, is around 2% — well below the 20% minimum threshold scientists say they need to assess a fish stock’s health.

 

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Oh then we definitely need more observers

End the fishing industry.

At last the article does mention the lack of compliance by foreign boats.

I’m literally listening to a fascinating podcast about this exact thing right now.

Or could we limit overfishing for the sake of ocean life and habitat

Just what we want to see. A live screensaver for windows xp.

Transparency? Or reality show?

Illegal fish migration

MariamBaksh the angles are kind of unlimited

That guy gutting that fish is going to slash his legs one day, didn't look right.

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