Back to Search
Start Over
Addressing Gaps in Small-Scale Fisheries: A Low-Cost Tracking System.
- Source :
-
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) [Sensors (Basel)] 2022 Jan 22; Vol. 22 (3). Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 22. - Publication Year :
- 2022
-
Abstract
- During the last decade vessel-position-recording devices, such as the Vessel Monitoring System and the Automatic Identification System, have increasingly given accurate spatial and quantitative information of industrial fisheries. On the other hand, small-scale fisheries (vessels below 12 m) remain untracked and largely unregulated even though they play an important socio-economic and cultural role in European waters and coastal communities and account for most of the total EU fishing fleet. The typically low-technological capacity of these small-scale fishing boats-for which space and power onboard are often limited-as well their reduced operative range encourage the development of efficient, low-cost, and low-burden tracking solutions. In this context, we designed a cost-effective and scalable prototypic architecture to gather and process positional data from small-scale vessels, making use of a LoRaWAN/cellular network. Data collected by our first installation are presented, as well as its preliminary processing. The emergence of a such low-cost and open-source technology coupled to artificial intelligence could open new opportunities for equipping small-scale vessels, collecting their trajectory data, and estimating their fishing effort (information which has historically not been present). It enables a new monitoring strategy that could effectively include small-scale fleets and support the design of new policies oriented to inform coastal resource and fisheries management.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1424-8220
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 35161586
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s22030839