March 20, 2012 – High-tech "electronic eyes" designed by a Victoria company are being installed today for testing on a tuna boat moored in the Seychelles but heading out shortly to the pirateplagued Indian Ocean.
The video-based electronic monitoring system, designed by Archipelago Marine Research, of Head Street, has been used for seven years to monitor fisheries on B.C.'s groundfish fleet. Now it's starting to make waves internationally with tests in areas too dangerous for human observers.
"The interest that we have in our equipment is very broad. It is across a wide range of fisheries," Howard McElderry, vicepresident of electronic monitoring for Archipelago, said Monday.
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