eCatch: Enabling collaborative fisheries management with technology |
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Affiliation: | 1. The Nature Conservancy, 201 Mission Street 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA, USA;2. Ecological Assets Management LLC, Los Osos, CA, USA;3. McClintock Lab, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA;4. California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sacramento, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | Modernizing data systems to inform collaborative management is critical to adaptively managing fisheries in an era of climate change. In 2006, The Nature Conservancy of California purchased 13 federal groundfish permits in California with the objective of managing the fishing and reporting activities in a manner that protected sensitive habitats and species. At that time, collecting data for this fishery was done with paper logbooks. This made queries and visualization that could inform management decisions towards our objective impossible in a timely manner. To solve this problem, we built successive software prototypes that leveraged location-aware mobile devices, cloud-based computing, and visualization and query of geographic data over the web. The resulting software, eCatch, enabled avoidance of sensitive species and habitats and quantitative reporting on performance metrics related to those activities. What started as a technology solution to a problem of timely scientific monitoring revealed collateral benefits of collaboration with the fishing industry and markets that support sustainable activities. |
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