{"id":2810,"date":"2011-05-05T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:30:07","slug":"catch-share-conversations-monitoring-systems-case-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/05\/05\/catch-share-conversations-monitoring-systems-case-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch Share Conversations: Monitoring Systems Case Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2814\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/05\/RedSnapper_Monitoring.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2814 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/05\/RedSnapper_Monitoring.jpg\" alt=\"Teal basket full of red snapper\" width=\"240\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/05\/RedSnapper_Monitoring.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/05\/RedSnapper_Monitoring-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Throughout this week in our <em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?query=%22catch+share+conversations%22\" target=\"_self\">Catch Share Conversations<\/a><\/em> series, we have explored the importance of monitoring, and discussed best practices of monitoring systems. Today, we present two case studies\u2014British Columbia Groundfish and Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish&#8211; that highlight the diversity of fisheries and accompanying monitoring systems.\u00a0 These distinctly different examples show how monitoring systems reflect the unique goals and characteristics of a fishery and how two different fisheries design monitoring programs to meet their needs.<\/p>\n<p>The British Columbia Groundfish fishery is a multispecies fishery with a fleet that employs a wide range of gear types. It employs one of the most sophisticated monitoring systems in the world, including hail in\/hail out, 100 percent\u00a0dockside coverage, 100\u00a0percent at-sea monitoring, including observers for trawl vessels, and electronic video monitoring for hook &amp; line and trap vessels.<\/p>\n<p>The Gulf of Mexico Reef fish fishery is a multispecies fishery. The fishery uses logbooks, partial at-sea monitoring, dockside coverage, electronic reporting, VMS and hail in\/hail out monitoring techniques to reach program goals.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete fact sheets for more details on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/05\/CSC-BC-Monitoring-1.pdf\">British Columbia Groundfish<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/05\/CSC-GOMMonitoring2011sm1.pdf\">Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish<\/a> monitoring systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/05\/RedSnapper_Monitoring.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Throughout this week in our Catch Share Conversations series, we have explored the importance of monitoring, and discussed best practices of monitoring systems. Today, we present two case studies\u2014British Columbia Groundfish and Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish&#8211; that highlight the diversity of fisheries and accompanying monitoring systems.  These distinctly different examples show how monitoring systems reflect the unique goals and characteristics of a fishery and how two different fisheries design monitoring programs to meet their needs. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/05\/05\/catch-share-conversations-monitoring-systems-case-studies\" \/>Read the full post &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1991,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[472,80,516,469,5089,5202,38,524],"coauthors":[5148],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulf-of-mexico","tag-catch-shares","tag-fisheries","tag-groundfish","tag-gulf","tag-management","tag-monitoring","tag-oceans","tag-reef-fish"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Catch Share Conversations: Monitoring Systems Case Studies - EDFish<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/05\/05\/catch-share-conversations-monitoring-systems-case-studies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Catch Share Conversations: Monitoring Systems Case Studies - EDFish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Throughout this week in our Catch Share Conversations series, we have explored the importance of monitoring, and discussed best practices of monitoring systems. 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