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Experiments with hanging crane scales could lead to faster transhipping: postcard from Majuro

Categories Photography, The tuna picturePosted on 1 April 2020
Testing hanging crane scales during tuna transhipment Majuro Marshall Islands. Hook with large chain hanging from it right side of image, on left side of image mean in hand hats on deck of ship holding a net. Photo Francisco Blaha.
Testing hanging crane scales during a transhipment at Majuro, Marshall Islands.
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A small project to test four types of electronic crane scales may grow into a transhipping process that benefits crews, skippers, vessel managers, scientists and regulators, project members hope.

If their early experiments pay off, the accuracy of weighing catches during transhipment will improve.

After much testing for precision, robustness, ease of use, price, and a few other characteristics, the team has chosen the best performer. Team members need to develop standards that would be workable in the transhipment ports in Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu and Solomon Islands.

The team comprised people from Forum Fisheries Agency, the Pacific Community, and Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority, led by fisheries consultant Francisco Blaha. They secured funding for the project from the Pacific–European Union Marine Partnership program. 

The team hope this process to increase the accuracy of weight monitoring during the slow work of transhipment will become commonplace. If this happens, the people who monitor transhipments will be able to trust the weights as read by the scales, which will free them up to focus on the species composition of transfers.

As Francisco said in a blog post on the project and its possible benefits, “Beside playing with amazing tech, it was great to work with very professional yet relaxed crew.” Photo by Francisco Blaha.

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