Fisheries
TNC-backed Edge AI seeks to streamline electronic monitoring in the ongoing effort to fight IUU fishing
27 April 2026
Lauren Kramer
AI-powered tool requires human checks to ensure accuracy of the models
With cost a barrier to wider adoption of electronic monitoring, a new tool aims to improve catch counts with lower miss rates compared to humans. Photo courtesy of TNC.
Until recently, efforts to curb illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing have focused on electronic monitoring (EM), with vessels using cameras, GPS trackers and sensors to record fishing activity to a hard dr