Electronic Reporting and Electronic Monitoring Implementation Status – July 2020

This information paper provides a summary of Electronic Reporting (ER) and Electronic Monitoring (EM) projects currently being implemented in WCPO oceanic fisheries. Patterns of e-reporting in purse seine and longline fisheries are detailed. The development and implementation of applications for the collection and transmission of port sampling data and purse seine and longline observer records is described. The number of analysed EM longline fishing sets is presented. The importance of the provision of data towards improving Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) software and towards informing stock assessments is discussed. Finally, an outlook on advancing policy and technical matters for EM is provided.