Study Fleet

In collaboration with New England groundfish fishing fleets, NOAA Fisheries Service has developed the CRPP Study Fleet Program. The CRPP Study Fleet Program is a pilot project to develop and implement state-of-the-art electronic data reporting devices for use aboard groundfish fishing vessels in the Northeast. The goal of the project is to design and field test electronic reporting hardware for collecting, recording, and transferring more accurate and timely fishery-based data. The vessels that participate in the Study Fleet will represent a stratified subsample of the entire fishing fleet. These vessels will collect more detailed information for use in management decisions.  

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Three distinct pilot fleets comprising different vessel size categories are included in this pilot project. The first fleet is large Southern New England trawlers from New Bedford, Massachusetts, to Narragansett, Rhode Island. The second fleet is the small hook vessels based out of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The third fleet is the medium-sized trawlers and gill-netters from Cape Ann, Massachusetts, to Mid-Coast Maine.

Perot Systems Government Services has been contracted by NMFS to assist in the management of the CRPP Study Fleet Program. Three associations were awarded contracts to assist PSGS with this project. The Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association (CCCHFA) will manage the small hook and gillnet vessels. The Gulf of Maine Research Institute will manage the medium-sized trawlers and gill-netters. The Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences will manage the larger offshore trawlers.

Last Updated: June 22, 2006