February 13, 2013 — NOAA Fisheries has approved four companies to provide at-sea monitoring services and three companies to provide dockside monitoring services in the 2013 Fishing Year, which begins on May 1. According to the release "Sectors are responsible for the costs of all monitoring in fishing year (FY) 2013, to the extent not funded by NOAA Fisheries."
View the official announcement here
Saving Seafood coverage of the controversy over at-sea monitoring costs:
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