Skipper Science Phone App Adds Fishermen to Data Collection
Fishermen are the eyes and ears of a changing ocean ecosystem. Now, their observations can be added to Alaska’s science and data driven resource management.
A new Skipper Science smartphone app lets fishermen collect and share what they are seeing in real-time.
The free app is an offshoot of an Indigenous Sentinels Network started nearly 20 years ago at St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs to monitor wildlife and environmental conditions in the Bering Sea.
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