BOSTON – New England fishermen are starting to use digital cameras to document groundfish discards and prove they are fishing within established quotas, turning to technology for a method that may prove more cost effective than hiring human monitors.
With support from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, The Nature Conservancy is overseeing a new project, which launches on Wednesday, June 1 and is being hailed as a "new era in fisheries monitoring."
This article by Kyle S. Reyes has been shared by several of my conservative-leaning friends over the past couple of days. I read it because, in spite of my wild-eyed bleeding-heart progressive ways, I do respect my conservative friends and appreciate their points of view.
The Reyes article made me think — and made me hopeful for a way forward in this divisive political atmosphere. The piece is a cry for sanity and perspective, and an indictment of the media-politics industrial complex that thrives on conflict, identity politics, fear and hyperbole.
