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Article: Fishermen cast wary eye on trawlers' `Big Brother box'.(Environment)(Fishing boat monitoring to protect groundfish species may be expanded to include many more vessels)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 14, 2005
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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard
CORRECTION (ran 3/17/05): The Oregon Trollers Association represents the state's commercial troll fleet. A story on Page B1 on Monday used an incorrect name for the group.
NEWPORT - Big Brother is watching Mark Chase.
The Newport groundfisherman has a small black box wired inside the cabin of his trawler, the Norma M. It stays on all the time - as far as he knows - and tracks the vessel's every move, via satellite. Once an hour, the box tells the government the exact location of the Norma M.
The purpose is to keep Chase from sailing into closed waters, so that a groundfish species that collapsed ...