June 19, 2018 — The US National Marine Fisheries Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has tapped AIS Inc., a Marion, Massachusetts-based company, to monitor fishing in the Northeast US for the next five years, the company said in a press release. The contract is worth $47 million.
The job will entail employing 80 to 100 observers riding on commercial fishing vessels all along the northeastern coast of the US, from Maine to North Carolina, covering 10,000 sea days per year, the company said. All observers must have a bachelor of science degree in biological or ecological services and pass a three-week training to test before becoming certified.
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