Publication - Consultation paper

Marine resources - ensuring long term sustainability: remote electronic monitoring (REM) consultation

Published: 15 March 2022
Directorate: Marine Directorate
Topic: Marine and fisheries
ISBN: 9781802017298

Remote electronic monitoring (REM) is a component of our Future Fisheries Management Strategy (FFM). This policy explores the installation of cameras, GPS and sensors on board vessels to monitor fishing activity.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1. Future fisheries: management strategy - 2020 to 2030 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2. Scottish Government and Scottish Green Party: draft shared policy programme - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

3. Council Regulation establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy 2009

4. Protocol Notification: The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

5. Working Group on Technology Integration for Fishery-Dependent Data (ices.dk)

6. Geoff French, Michal Mackiewicz, Mark Fisher, Helen Holah, Rachel Kilburn, Neil Campbell, Coby Needle, Deep neural networks for analysis of fisheries surveillance video and automated monitoring of fish discards, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 77, Issue 4, July-August 2020, Pages 1340–1353, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz149

7. The Regulation of Scallop Fishing (Scotland) Order 2017 (legislation.gov.uk)

8. Electronic monitoring in Chile: testing, implementation, and iteration | Future of Fish

9. Progress of electronic monitoring in the Snapper 1 trawl fishery | Fishing and aquaculture | NZ Government (mpi.govt.nz)

10. Cetaceans and tuna purse seine fisheries in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans : interactions but few mortalities | Request PDF (researchgate.net)

11. Microsoft Word - Electronic_Monitoring_in_Alaska_1.14.10.docx (npfmc.org)

12. 4.Herring-and-Mackerel-Fishery-Electronic-Monitoring-Project_Final-Report.pdf

13. I.e. those we are applying the requirement to. In this instance, the pelagic and scallop dredge fleets.

14. It should be noted these are estimates only based on: REM Technical Guidelines and Minimun Requirements (europa.eu)

15. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/127/made

16. Consultation on new controls in the Scottish King Scallop Fishery 2014 (www.gov.scot)

17. Consultation on New Controls in the Scottish King Scallop Fishery 2014 - Outcome Report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)