Maine startup hopes trawler cams help save world’s dwindling fish stocks

ASSOCIATED PRESS • December 7, 2022

A Maine-based startup, New England Maritime Monitoring, is one of multiple companies aiming to help commercial vessels comply with new U.S. mandates aimed at protecting dwindling fish stocks. It’s a brisk business as demand for sustainably caught seafood and around-the-clock monitoring has exploded. But the result, scientists fear, could be that well-intended initiatives to replenish fish stocks and reduce unintentional bycatch of threatened species like sharks and sea turtles could backfire: By adding to the regulatory burdens already faced by America’s skippers, more fishing could be transferred overseas and further out of view of conservationists and consumers