Acoustic data collection by the krill fishing industry to improve the monitoring of krill abundance

SG-ASAM are invited to consider provide further recommendations for improving this fishing vessel data collection program and provide advice on

• the timing and frequency for conducting acoustic transects;
• the methods for the data transmission to the Secretariat including the use of EchoExplore to provide a meta-data catalogue of the data and
• whether to have acoustic data transferred to the Secretariat as complete (raw) acoustic data files for processing and/or analysis products (e.g. from the EchoViewR protocol agreed at SG-ASAM).