Team goals

CSIRO (and partner organisations) to conduct research aimed at enabling enforcement through improved use of monitoring information to:

  1. Improve fisheries management, in particular the quality of fisheries statistics and the information available to support enforcement, through the improved use of multiple sources of monitoring data and information;
  2. Increase the value of information available from fisheries monitoring data for fisheries management; and
  3. Increase the research and technical and operational capacity of partner organisations.

Working together, the teams are developing case studies on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing related issues. Using a combination of statistical algorithms, satellite data and ground-truthing information, we are modelling vessel behaviours to increase enforcement opportunities.

 

As a team we focus on three main areas: