COOPERATIVE RESEARCH

HLA vessels participate in a wide range of cooperative research activities including satellite vessel monitoring, sea turtle, seabird, and false killer whale mitigation, target and non-target species tagging, longline gear modifications, time-area catch monitoring, .

Current projects include:

• Seabird tori line development and minimum standards

• Shark tagging to better estimate post-release survivability

• Shallow-set sea turtle avoidance program

• Electronic video monitoring and machine learning development