Advantages of EM and cameras to enhance the value of observer’s outputs and personal safety
Channel: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Date: 07/10/2021

Observers onboard fishing vessels have a complex and demanding task with an overloaded demand for accurate data and near real time reporting. Most at-sea observer programs focus on compliance related issues. Automating electronic monitoring (EM) has the potential to save observers time and remove them from situations that are operationally unsafe. Modern cameras and rapid advances in imagery and AI technology makes it possible to monitor on-deck tasks from remote positions in safety and comfort. The observer can then focus on tasks where cameras are inefficient.

EM and remote sensing can independently provide images and information in settings that have a compliance factor and safety issue, for example, monitoring bird scaring/tori-lines. EM can increase monitoring from 5–20 percent up to 100–200 percent in cases where human and EM work together on the same vessel. It also has significant advantage on small vessels which are generally less safe and suitable for accommodating an observer.

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