New Article: Fisheries co-management in a digital age? An investigation of social media communications on the development of electronic monitoring for the Northeast US groundfish fishery

isheries regulators have increasingly incorporated video monitoring systems, also known as electronic monitoring, into
programs for fisheries data collection and documentation of bycatch. Electronic monitoring has recently emerged as one potential
solution for fisheries monitoring and catch accounting in the Northeast United States, where fisheries regulators will soon require all commercial groundfish trips to be monitored either by electronic monitoring or human observers. Fisheries managers, scientists, and industry stakeholders have cooperated to some extent to solve some of the logistical and technical hurdles of electronic monitoring through recent pilot projects and coordination meetings. Read more about JPB Fellows Matthew Cutler and Kirk Jalbert research.