Fisheries Conservation Engineering Videos

The NOAA, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Mississippi Laboratories, Harvesting Systems Unit conducts research to develop gear modifications to mitigate bycatch in fisheries. The video library contains underwater and surface video footage obtained during fisheries dependent and fisheries independent conservation engineering research conducted since 1986. The library includes footage of research conducted in commercial and recreational fisheries including: hook and line, longline, trawl, gill net, and pot fisheries. The footage is contained on VHS, DVD, Hi-8 and 8mm, digital videotapes, and mp4 video files. In addition, the library contains images obtained from DIDSON and ARIS sonars.

To obtain video observations of fishing gear and animal behavior during fishing gear conservation engineering research.

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Principal investigators review videos for accuracy and relevance for each project.

Data resides on Networked Attached Storage (NAS) environment. Security patches/updates are immediately applied to the host environment. Data is stripped/mirrored using RAID 50 technology to protect data from disk failure. Nightly backups are preformed and files are written to magnetic tape and stored in an onsite / offsite location.

Surface and underwater video footage are recorded by video cameras or sonars. Footage is reviewed, cataloged, and stored on VHS, DVD, Hi-8 and 8mm, digital videotapes, and mp4 video files.