Last week Silicon Valley Bank opened their doors to the IoT Forum to host a meeting on Industrial IoT, sponsored by Foghorn. Because of the dropping cost and increasing accuracy of sensors, connectivity to those sensors, cloud computing, and analytics systems, IIoT is capturing the interest of telco, vendors, and investors who want to ride […]
Illegal poaching of fish and other sea life, known as maritime poaching, happens everyday all over the world. This winter, Maryland Natural Resources Police discovered more than 13 tons of poached striped bass, also called rockfish, in illegally anchored nets in the Chesapeake Bay.
The poaching finds led fisheries agencies to close rock fish season early. Natural Resources Police served search warrants related to the poaching but have not yet made any arrests.
The Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources is hoping to reduce the illegal fishing by launching a pilot program that would use GPS tracking systems to monitor the movements of commercial fishing boats.
GPS tracking systems discourage illegal fishing by allowing agencies to track commercial fishing boats that go into closed areas or operate during restricted times. They are being used increasingly across the United States and Canada but would be new to Maryland, according to Tom O’Connell, director of DNR’s fisheries service
