E-monitoring

E-monitoring technologies are being trialled onboard vessels in some fisheries for their potential benefits in improving management, reporting, and cost efficiencies [e.g. 1]. They have the potential to ensure data collections are timely, accurate, adaptable to emerging needs, and capable of providing data at a scale that will support management and scientific needs [2]. Furthermore, E-monitoring has the potential to expand the data collected by freeing at-sea observers to concentrate on data fields or tasks that cannot be collected via E-Monitoring.

Literature in this category includes studies, trials and reports that document the advantages and disadvantages of E-monitoring for bycatch species. Technical specifications, issues that require further attention, best practices and data quality and analysis are also covered.