2.2.5 On-board survey camera and electronic monitoring
Electronic Monitoring loosely consists of a "closed" video or photographic system, integrated
with a sensor system that can be used to view changes in fishing activity and to trigger or
coordinate detailed viewing. Both (the recording and viewing) are "closed systems". The
camera and sensor systems do not allow external or manual inputs or manipulation of data.
On-board survey cameras may identify interactions with bycatch species and are especially
useful when recording bycatches of protected species. The viewed data can also provide a
secondary source of data, for example, to validate catch and bycatch log sheets. Cameras can
substitute for the observer’s requirements, largely where it may be impractical to deploy
observers, or where there may be a threat to the security of on-board observers.
An EM can provide views of critical vessel areas, e.g. gear deployment and retrieval, catch on
-board, sorting, processing, storage and can potentially be used to replace or complement
the use of human observers (who are expensive, logistically complex and possibly open to
bribery).Video records are also requested by the International Commission for the
Conservation of Atlantic Tunas for Bluefin tuna catch and transfer from boat to farm.
This technology is not yet mandatory even if it starts to become so for some species in some
regions such as Bluefin tuna. It limits the risk of corruption when observers are replaced by
cameras.
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