On 11 Dec 2005 02:12:11 -0800,
wrote:
Hi:
I am more I incline to go with the camera with an integrated gps
watching the back deck idea. Excellent deterrent!!
Unfortunately our bandwidth is EXTREMELY limited - 8 bytes per hour (or
transmission) in fact! :-)
However, having an onboard camera doing local logging & offloading the data
back in port sounds like a possibility. I notice that there are digital
cameras coming out now with built-in WiFi - it would be great if one of those
could be set up to take a picture every X minutes into a big memory card,
then automatically dump the pictures into a WiFi system as soon as the
fishing boat came back to port!
How to keep the fishers from selling fuel? Put a government seal on
their gas cap. The trucking industry uses seals on the door of the
trailer. Or a simple lock. If your boats return lockless tell them to
shove off and buy subsidized fuel someplace else.
Unfortunately these boats are pretty rough & ready - something like this:
http://www.drewish.com/photos/2002/t...i/DSC01055.jpg
although this is actually a squid boat I think, with all the light globes.
Their fuel tanks might be a 44 gallon drum & their lines to their engines
might be plastic garden hoses in the worst of cases. Seals tend to be a very
small nuisance that is easily bypassed somewhere along the fuel line.
1) Big $$ space age satellite tracking stuff.
2) Middle $$ Camera with gps and mass storage device that lasts for
duration of trip.
I'll definitely give them (2) as an option.
3) Little $$ On board observers funded by landing tax.
Probably hard to find observers that would want to go out on these sort of
boats! :-) And they couldn't do it on every voyage for every boat anyway, so
the fishermen would just change tactics if the observer were to come onboard
for a voyage. We are after an electronic method that can find patterns of
abuse of the system to allow fuller investigation by humans later.
Thanks for all the good ideas from the participants in the thread though -
it's been most educational.
Dave