Recommendation for Implementing Requirements for Electronic Vessel Tracking for Federal Lobster and Jonah Crab Fleet — July 2021

Over the last few years the American Lobster Management Board (Board) has continually expressed interest in implementing requirements to collect high resolution spatial and temporal effort data in the federal lobster and Jonah crab fisheries, and has supported efforts to investigate systems and technology for collecting these data. At its May 2021 meeting, the Board…