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3B THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015 Quinault boats test new crab pot monitors Expense is a drawback, but electronic tags would curb Wild West practices on the ocean By KATIE WILSON EO Media Group OLYMPIC PENINSULA, Wash. — Many eyes have been on the Quinault Indian Nation as it tests technology that could help dramat- ically improve rule enforcement in Washington’s $62 million commer- FLDOFUDE¿VKHU\ 7KUHH 4XLQDXOW ¿VKHUPHQ KDYH been using an electronic crab pot monitoring system to track gear use. This entails placing quarter-coin- sized radio frequency tags in their crab pot buoys over the summer and since November. As the pots were pulled aboard, they scanned the buoys in front of a sensor: “Basically like you’re scanning groceries at the VWRUH´VDLG4XLQDXOW¿VKHUPDQ3HWH Wilson, who was one of the three participants in the pilot program. 7KH VHQVRU WUDQVPLWWHG WKH LGHQWL¿- cation number and the GPS location to a computer. With every pot registered to only RQH RZQHU ¿VKHU\ PDQDJHUV KRSH this will be a simple way to track boat activity and gear use. “It would solve some pretty sig- QL¿FDQW LVVXHV ZH IDFH LQ WKH FUDE ¿VKHU\´ VDLG 'DQ $\UHV FRDVW- DO VKHOO¿VK OHDG ELRORJLVW ZLWK WKH :DVKLQJWRQ'HSDUWPHQWRI)LVKDQG Wildlife. As things stand, both tribal and QRQWULEDO FRPPHUFLDO FUDE ¿VKHU- men looking to cheat the system and steal gear and crab can, for the most SDUW JHW DZD\ ZLWK LW )LVKHUPHQ work at night and “guys that have QRVFUXSOHVFRPHDORQJDQG¿VKRWK- er guys’ gear,” Ayres said. “Unless someone is right there in the middle of the night and knows what’s going on, it’s almost impossible for us to PDNH D FDVH %HFDXVH ¿VKHUPHQ know we can’t do anything about it, they don’t necessarily report (inci- dents) to us.” :'):HQIRUFHPHQWRI¿FHUVZLOO hear about stolen gear from time to time, but the traps are in the ocean and the ocean is never still. Besides, whales tangle in pots, debris snags them, storms move them. The Quinault Indian Nation is ZRUNLQJZLWKWKHQRQSUR¿W(FR7UXVW Canada to process the data it collect- ed. The pilot program ended in Janu- Deborah L. Preston photo The Quinault Indian Nation on the Olympic Peninsula is experiment- ing with a new electronic monitoring system to keep track of the tribe’s significant share of Washington state’s Dungeness crab industry. Wilson said regarding the expense per boat. Schumacker didn’t have a cost estimate yet, but said it would have to be well under $10,000 to be af- IRUGDEOHWR¿VKHUPHQ &RVW LV RQH UHDVRQ WKDW :'): has yet to implement similar mon- itoring though it has examined the possibility before. With that kind of price tag, it’s a hard sell, Ayres said. 7KH EHQH¿W RI WKH PRQLWRULQJ would primarily go to those in the industry, but since they would also have to bear the bulk of the cost, the technology won’t become main- Deborah L. Preston photo VWUHDPXQOHVVWKH¿VKHUPHQVXSSRUW Pete Wilson, Quinault Indian Nation fisherman, demonstrates how it. crab pots are scanned using a sensor embedded in the pot float. Still, Ayres said, “it’s something Deborah L. Preston photo that’s slowly becoming more com- Alan Sarich, a fisheries biologist mon in other situations in other DU\1R¿QDOUHSRUWRUQXPEHUVKDYH in the states, Schumacker said. been made public yet though Joe “I don’t think it’s all the way for the Quinault Indian Nation, states.” In theory, as it gains traction else- Schumacker, QIN marine scientist, there,” Wilson said about the equip- holds up the sensor that is em- expects a report in March. PHQW LQ D SKRQH LQWHUYLHZ )HE bedded in the crab floats. The where and becomes standard: “It sensor system was a demonstra- gets better and slowly gets cheaper.” “If it works well, we’re hoping But he thinks it’s close. But he thinks the department will WRKDYHLWRQDOO¿VKLQJERDWVLQWKH “I’d say 90 percent of our guys tion project this year and QIN will future and would love to see it used are probably going to want this im- decide whether to implement the see more support as younger, more WHFKVDYY\¿VKHUPHQHQWHUWKHÀHHW E\WKHQRQWULEDO¿VKHUPHQDVZHOO´ plemented,” he said. “There are one system in the future. ³:H¶YH JRW ¿VKHUPHQ ZKR VWLOO Schumacker said in an article in the or two who’d probably prefer that don’t have answering machines and, Winter 2014/15 Northwest Indian it would not, for their own personal :'):WKHWHFKQRORJ\ZRXOGPHDQ God forbid, a cell phone or an e-mail Fisheries Commission News. reasons.” In an phone interview, he said But he and the others don’t have wading through massive amounts of address,” he said. data, something they don’t have the Even now, they are only just it is something he has been push- anything to hide. ing for the last decade. 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