Euronews OCEAN Season 6, Episode 10 – Fish and microchips: how AI can help Europe's fishers and protect the seas

New digital tools in fishery control can help ensure compliance with fishing rules and catch limits while making fishers' jobs easier and safer. 

In this episode of "Ocean," we meet Norway fishermen testing an innovative catch scanner in the Barents Sea, and talk with researchers from the EU-supported EVERYFISH project developing smart and robust catch-counting tools for fishing vessels. 

We also visit the European Fisheries Control Agency in Vigo to learn how changes in EU fishery control regulation will provide smart new tools to fishery inspectors in Europe and beyond.

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OCEAN is a Euronews magazine in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MARE). It features monthly 8-minute videos, where we discover fascinating projects and developments related to the ocean and coastal communities.

Broadcast since 2019, OCEAN features episodes on marine protected areas, small-scale fisheries, ocean energy, aquaculture, IUU fishing, sustainable fisheries and much more. Missed one? Check them out on the Euronews website! You will also find some nice extras about these topics.

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