Groundfish Trawl Dockside Monitoring Program (DMP)
The Groundfish Trawl Dockside Monitoring Program delivers independent dockside monitoring and real-time landing data to support effective in-season management and regulatory oversight of British Columbia’s groundfish trawl fishery, implemented by Fisheries and Oceans Canada and delivered by Archipelago.
March 22, 2021
Project Overview:
In January 1994 Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) instituted a user-pay DMP for BC’s groundfish trawl fishery. DFO contracted Archipelago to set up and conduct the DMP as well as to design and manage a data system capable of providing real time data on all trawl vessel landing activities and landed weights by species. This information was necessary for in-season management of this complex multi species fishery. Archipelago was initially contracted by DFO, then later by the CGRCS, and has provided dockside monitoring services to the groundfish trawl fishery annually since 1994.
