Video technology for groundfish stocks

摘要

THE PORT OF New Bedford has released a plan to revitalise the Northeast's struggling groundfish fishery and its number one recommendation calls for expanded use of video survey technology in groundfish assessments.The port is America's most valuable commercial fishing port and according to the New Bedford Harbor Development Commission's (HOC) Groundfish Port Recovery and Revitalization Plan for the Port of New Bedford and Fairhaven, the region's groundfish fisherystands to improve if fisheries scientists and managers apply similar video survey technology as that which helped revive the region's now-successful scallop fishery.