South Georgia Longline Fisheries Monitoring
South Georgia’s longline fisheries monitoring program uses mandatory electronic monitoring to deliver consistent data on compliance, fishing effort, and catch composition, supporting effective fisheries oversight through licence requirements established by the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
March 22, 2021
Project Overview:
This program started as a pilot, with a pioneering company in the fishery. After demonstrating the success in data collection and value of the data, the government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands made electronic monitoring a license requirement. Individual vessel owners are now required in their license agreements to have a functional EM system installed and operating 100% of the time while fishing. Monitoring elements include compliance, fishing effort and catch/bycatch composition. 2021 is the end of the first 4 year license series with this requirement.
