Implications and Trends of Electronic Monitoring
A project of the Observer Data APO Focus Area
Project Overview
Electronic monitoring is a rapidly developing technology as a means of saving costs to industry for observer coverage and a way to monitor situations where it is either impossible or dangerous for human monitoring. The implications for observers are obvious: we may lose our jobs. But what are the benefits? What is the overall plan for electronic monitoring? There is an entire host of critical monitoring duties that electronic monitoring is unable to accomplish-but they're working on that! Who stands to gain financially in its promotion? What does science and fisheries monitoring stand to loose? In this project, we will explore the latest research and trends to keep ourselves abreast of this rapidly developing field.Project Updates
No recent updates.Contact Information
Please do not hesitate to contact us with your questions or feedback, and if you have any interest in participating in the developments of this project.Liz Mitchell: emitch@efn.org
Alicia Billings: aliciabillings@gmail.com
Mark Wormington: siberio@hotmail.com
Project Resources
- Electronic Fisheries Monitoring Workshop Proceedings, Seattle, July 2008
- McElderry, H., J. Schrader, D. McCullough, J. Illingworth, S. Fitzgerald, and S. Davis. 2004. Electronic Monitoring of Seabird Interactions with Trawl Third-wire Cables on Trawl Vessels - A Pilot Study. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, NMFS, AFSC. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFSD-AFSC-147. September 2004