Implementation analysis of electronic monitoring for tuna longline fisheries in the central and western Pacific and the development strategies of China
QIAN Guodong
DAI Xiaojie
Abstract：With the increasingly strengthening of conservation,management and enforcement imple-mented by regional fisheries management organizations(RFMO),new technical methods are needed to improve data collection and enforcement implementation.As a feasible technical method,electronic monitoring(EM)has been tested among some countries and RFMO.In order to catch up with the de-velopment speed of EM tested by RFMO,the domestic fishery EM system of China should urgently be established,especially in the tuna longline fishery managed by regional fisheries organizations,which should meet the technical standards of tuna longline fishery EM adopted by RFMO.Therefore,the dis-tant water fishery EM system of China could be adjusted and established to meet the increasingly strin-gent fishery management.In this paper,we introduced the composition,operation principle,interna-tional application and cost advantage of EM.Taking the development of EM in tuna longline fishery of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission(WCPFC)as an example,we summarized the progress of EM in the WCPFC,and clarified the development trend of EM in the organizations which may benefited by development of EM in China fishery.We investigated the trial results of EM in long-line fishery in different countries in the central and western Pacific.On the basis of combining foreign experience and the domestic development status of EM in tuna longline fishery,we made suggestions in infrastructure,technology development,system standards,talent construction among others,which may provide references for the development of EM in the longline fishery of China.
Keywords：electronic monitoringlongline fisheryfishery managementobserver
Publication Date：2025-12-30
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：9( 246-254 )