At 9:30 am, after hours of fishing through the early morning, fishermen start to line up at the dock as three Ecotrust Canada fisheries monitors arrive to start their day. With monitors on site, the fishermen fill blue totes with their morning catch. They watch as the observers count, weigh, and sample as part of the validation process before they can sell to the buyer, who is at the dock, ready to load up his flatbed truck. The monitors unlock the single-axel cargo trailer and pull out all the supplies they’ll need for the day — a scale, totes, sampling tools, clipboards, and data sheets. Then they set up their foldout table, open the first tote, and collect data on ...
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