NFWF Grant Profile

Conservation Program(s):
Fisheries Innovation Fund
Project Title: Kept Catch Data from Electronic Monitoring in the New England Groundfish Fishery (MA, ME, NH, RI)
Organization:
New England Marine Monitoring, Inc.
Project ID:
0303.20.070558
Description:

Develop machine learning tools that use existing electronic monitoring data to collect information on kept catch in the New England groundfish fishery through testing three catch monitoring approaches across a variety of vessels. Project will derive kept catch data useful for science and management from video already being collected in the New England audit and maximum retention electronic monitoring programs and explore how this impacts program costs.

Award Amount:
$225962.32
Location:
Coastal Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island