AI and high-tech are at the forefront of a push by European authorities to crackdown on illegal fishing
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00:00We really go to a fully digitalized fisheries control environment.
00:09We are a bit revamping the control regulation,
00:12going towards a digitalization of fisheries control,
00:17introducing new technologies to record what's happening at sea,
00:21but also helping the people that have to inspect the fishing vessels
00:26to enforce the fisheries control regulation at member state level.
00:33VMS will be expanded to the entire fleet.
00:37We will also gradually include also the small scale fisheries.
00:41This is the same for the catch registration.
00:44This will also be expanded, even up to including recreational fisheries,
00:51so that we really have a full picture, a full mapping of what is happening.
00:56We have a focus, as always, on fighting illegal fisheries,
01:01so the illegal, unreported, unregulated fisheries,
01:04to give the chance to the people that want to follow the rules
01:08to also prove that they actually follow the rules.
01:11And this is one of the main points,
01:13is that this digitalization will take away any doubt
01:16with the fishermen that are playing with the rules
01:19that they are doing the right thing.
01:22Like that, we will be able to concentrate on the wrongdoers, the real issues.