The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has launched its new Smart Boat Initiative, designed to accelerate the exploration and adoption of new technologies to greatly improve sustainability, efficiency and profitability in the fishing sector, the nonprofit said.
The new initiative focuses on leveraging the technological advances and plummeting costs in sensors, artificial intelligence, broadband communication and data analytics to equip fishing vessels of all sizes with digital tools and infrastructure that can increase sustainability, accountability and transparency in fishing.
“Just as smart phones provided a platform for a wave of innovation, we believe there is an equally unprecedented opportunity to usher in a new era of sustainability in the global fishing sector led by digital transformation,” said Katie McGinty, senior vice president of the EDF Oceans program.
