![]() While there are clear opportunities that arise from partnering with fishing vessels, there are also challenges ranging from geographic and cultural differences in fleets, fishing methods and practices, data processing and management for heterogeneous data, as well as long term engagement of the fishers. There is an emerging global network of fishing vessels participating in collaborative efforts to collect oceanographic data accelerated by innovations in enabling technologies. Fishing vessel-collected ocean data can complement existing ocean observing networks by enabling the cost-effective collection of vast amounts of subsurface ocean information in data-sparse regions. ![]() The global fishing industry represents a vast opportunity to create a paradigm shift in how ocean data are collected: the spatio-temporal extent of ocean data gaps overlaps significantly with fishers’ activities fishing vessels are suitable platforms of opportunity to host communications and sensor equipment and many fishing vessels effectively conduct a depth-profile through the water column in the course of normal fishing activities, representing a powerful subsurface data collection opportunity. While there have been great leaps forward in sustained operational monitoring of our oceans there are still key data gaps which result in sub-optimal ocean management and policy decisions. Improving these observations has critical implications for our ability to sustainably derive food from the ocean, predict extreme weather events that take a toll on human life, and produce the goods and services that are needed to meet the needs of a vast and growing population. Ocean observations are the foundation of our understanding of ocean processes. 11US Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Federal, United States Department of Commerce, Washington, DC, United States.10School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. ![]() 9Oceanography and Climate Changes Group, Center for Marine and Environmental Research, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal.8Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), Lisbon, Portugal.7National Research Council−Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnologies (CNR-IRBIM), Ancona, Italy.6Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Oceans and Climate Branch, Retired, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Woods Hole, MA, United States.5Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Japan.4Community Planning Services, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden.3Environmental Defense Fund, San Francisco, CA, United States.2MetOcean Solutions, Meteorological Service of New Zealand, Raglan, New Zealand. ![]()
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