Government scientists, academia, and fishermen are working together to develop innovative monitoring tools to identify and measure fish from digital images. This technology could revolutionize the way fisheries data are collected. Machine vision technology advances electronic monitoring systems on fishing vessels, which use cameras to collect video of commercial catches. With this technology, scientists are […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter John McCormick and an officer from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Law Enforcement conducted joint safety and living marine resource boardings in the Gulf of Alaska last week. The boarding team, consisting of a Coast Guard boarding team and a NOAA enforcement […]
The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) prohibits “take” of marine mammals unless an exception or exemption applies such as the take exemption for subsistence harvests by Alaska Natives. The MMPA defines “take” as “to harass, hunt, capture, or kill, or attempt to harass, hunt, capture, or kill, any marine mammal.” The MMPA defines “harassment” as “any act of […]
Sometimes, as in the cases of the famous Civil War ironclad USS Monitor off North Carolina, or the USS Bugara, a U.S. Navy submarine that received three battle stars for its service in World War II, we know where shipwrecks are.[xyz-ihs snippet=”adsense-body-ad”]For instance, NOAA, Navy and private industry used a remotely operated vehicle, a kind of underwater robot, to locate […]