The New Zealand government will commit NZD 30.5 million (€19.1 million/$21.5 million) over the next four years to the upgrade and improvement of the fisheries management system, it announced in its budget for 2017.
The funds will be used to implement cameras, monitoring, and electronic reporting system on all commercial vessels.
“This funding will help introduce the world-leading Integrated Electronic Monitoring and Reporting System (IEMRS), which will give us arguably the most transparent and accountable commercial fishery anywhere in the world,” said Nathan Guy, new Zealand’s minister of Primary Industries.
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