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MANUAL CATCH REPORTING The general industry practice is to write out a catch report on paper, and present it to a fisheries management official when they return to port. If information does not seem plausible to the official, the report may be verified by physical inspection of the catch. Alternatively, a suspicious vessel may need to carry an independent observer on future voyages. SEMI-AUTOMATED CATCH REPORTING Some Vessel Monitoring Systems have features that collect, from keyboard input, the data that constitutes a catch report for the entire voyage. More advanced systems periodically transmit the current catch as electronic mail, so fisheries management centers can determine if a controlled area needs to be closed to further fishing. While there is no standardization as yet for catch reports, a starting point came from an 1981 Conference of Experts Expert Consultation on Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Systems for Fisheries Management :
This was extended, in 1993, to include: "Community-based fishery management: towards the restoration of traditional practices in the South Pacific", ''Marine Policy'' 17(2): 108-117 1993 to include the measurement of:
A number of programs require tracking of days at sea (DAS) for a given vessel. They may require tracking the total cumulative catch of a given fishery. MAJOR TRENDS Where the local fishery economy permits, perhaps with international funding, near-real-time catch reporting will become a basic feature of vessel management systems. Software at fisheries management centers will cross-correlate VMS position information, catch reports, and spot inspection reports. REFERENCES |
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