What ICTs are you using?

EDF and partners have been working on a few different applications of technology to fisheries. One that I'm particularly excited about — which we've called SmartPass — uses shore-based camera systems coupled with machine learning to identify, classify and enumerate fishing vessels to estimate fishing effort. We've been testing it in recreational fisheries in the United States and in a small-scale commercial fishery in Indonesia. We just released some resources on this, including a video and white paper, available at https://www.edf.org/smartpass