West Coast eFIS Workshop

Overview

West Coast fisheries are facing major challenges that require collection of real time (RT) and near real time (NRT) information. Whether it is quota accounting, observer coverage, bycatch management, electronic logbooks/fish tickets, research and monitoring, spatial mapping, or product tracking and marketing, demands are growing for high resolution RT and NRT data. At the same time, rapidly improving technologies increase the speed, reliability, and capacity for storing, communicating, and sharing fisheries data. But there are major questions: Who owns this data and how will it be shared? Can data be used to improve the economic success of the industry while also meeting regulatory requirements? How do we avoid costly and duplicative systems? And how do we ensure that systems designed to share data also protect individual privacy? The transition to RT and NRT electronic systems pose potential benefits but also raise major issues.

A recent workshop in Portland (May 3-4, 2010) presented and discussed these issues and more, with the ultimate goal of developing a series of recommendations for implementing these systems on the West Coast. Materials resulting from that workshop are posted here.

Attendee Directory

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Presentations

• Overview, Issues and Workshop Objectives
  Gil Sylvia, OSU Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station
• West Coast Electronic Fish Tickets and Compliance Monitor Reporting
  David Colpo, Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
• Electronic Fishery Information Systems
  Ron Goruk, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• Bycatch Reduction Agreements
  John Gruver, United Catcher Boats
• Electronic Data Systems and Northwest Fisheries Science Center Observer Programs
  Janell Majewski, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
• North American Fish Trax
  Heather Mann, Community Seafood Initiative
• At-Sea Observing Using Video-Based Electronic Monitoring Technology (.pdf)
  Howard McElderry, Archipelago Marine Research Ltd.
• eCatch - Technology for Collaborative Fisheries Management
  Matt Merrifield, The Nature Conservancy
• Privacy and Security for Research Repositories
  Dan Steinberg, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.