Electronic Monitoring Is Failing In Detecting Shark Bycatch
A scientific paper that investigated the accuracy of counting shark bycatch in tuna purse seine fisheries has found that electronic monitoring systems (EMS), as well as onboard observers, are underestimating the number of sharks caught. Seiners targeting tropical tuna incidentally...
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