Monitoring is necessary to be able to document the status of the environment and to detect changes. The future may give us more cost efficient methods than we have today. Computer technology and use of satellite imagery may be further developed. However, reducing the influx of harmful substances into the marine environment, either transported through water or airborne, is crucial. Sustainable development also means having regard for the energy cost of operations.
Technology provides obvious possibilities to improve resource utilisation and energy efficiency.
Information technology is expanding fast and will probably represent possibilities in the future, which we cannot imagine today. Challenges lie in making full use of the possibilities for improving methods and techniques. There is not a lack of technological challenges in the fisheries sector. I hope that this conference can contribute to this. I wish you all the best with the coming days and with future conferences to follow.