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Step 1:
Step 1 would include the use of methods that are more environmentally friendly, such as hand lining or trapping rather than bottom trawling because , since trawls stir up sediment (turbidity is harmful to many fish species as well as bivalves), destroy fish habitat, and destroy plants and animals that live along the bottom, whereas hand lining and other more environmentally friendly methods do not contact the bottom and thus do not harm the nonliving environment and are very selective with little bycatch.
Hook and line, however, still has a small problem with bycatch. The hooks are baited but sometimes fish other than the desired catch will eat the bait. Fishermen sometimes kill the fish and throw them back in so they will not continue to eat their bait. As an alternative, we suggest keeping onboard the boat an aerated tank that the bycatch fish can be put into. At the end of the day when the fishermen are done with their catching, they can release the fish safely back into the ocean.
Also, rather than trawling or fishing for a set number of hours and pulling up the nets to see what and how much has been caught, putting sensors on nets that measure tension or width of the net or other factors that can give fishermen an estimation of the amount of fish in the nets before they pull the nets up. That This way, the quota allowance will not be exceeded resulting in all of the fish over the quota pound limit being thrown back dead into the ocean.
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A future idea would be to use GPS tags in nets and other fishing gear that would emit a unique signal that can be tracked by an automated server. Ships would also have a unique GPS tag that can be matched together with their equipment and ; boats that don't pass inspection (i.e. use the right equipment in the right areas such as no trawling areas) would be red flagged by the automated system, which then eliminates the eliminate the need for human operators which could be used more efficiently in and makes the enforcement aspect more efficient. This can also tracks track ships that fish in no-take closed areas. In order to track the number of hours a ship's equipment is in the water, a speed coach propeller could be put on nets and , or other mobile equipment which spins spin as water passes through and could , could be put on nets and track the speed and number of hours time for which the equipment is pulled. Hours in the water could also be tracked by a resistance meter that can sense when it is in water because the resistance of the water is much less than of air so as the meter dries, the resistance would dropresulting in a drop in resistance reading.
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