Table 1 



FACTORS RELEVANT TO FISHERY ZONE ENFORCEMENT 



Enforcement Objectives 



• Resource management 



• Conservation 



• Fishery stock allocation 



Enforcement Functions 



• Detection 



• Surveillance 



• Apprehension 



Enforcement Roles 



• U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and National Marine Fisheries Service 

 (NMFS) Division of Enforcement responsibility 



• Other U.S. Executive Branch roles (e.g., State, Treasury, DoD) 



• State and regional agency roles 



Enforcement Elements 



• Licenses/permits 



• Inspection 



• Reports 



• Remote sensing 



to fishery zone enforcement will depend on decisions on the specific 

 enforcement objectives and strategies to be pursued, on the allocation 

 of enforcement roles among interested agencies, and on the nature and 

 effectiveness of the other elements of the enforcement systems that 

 ultimately is implemented. Planning in all of these areas is just be- 

 ginning. Accordingly, it was necessary to examine the potential of re- 

 mote sensing technology to support enforcement in terms broad and general 

 enough to permit using the results in the evaluation of a wide variety 

 of enforcement approaches. 



Despite this need for generality, however, it was necessary to 

 establish a framework of "the enforcement problem" within which to com- 

 pare the potential contribution of alternative remote sensing techniques. 



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