April 14, 2025 –The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council has approved a new electronic logbook system, replacing the current system that hasn’t worked correctly since 2020.
NOAA Fisheries relies on an electronic logbook system to track shrimpers activity in the Gulf of Mexico, currently referred to as the Gulf of America by the Trump administration. The system was built to transmit data over a cellular connection and give regulators a continuously updated “shrimp effort estimate.”