Jarosz, LucyDrakopulos, Lauren2019-08-142019-08-142019Drakopulos_washington_0250E_20432.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/44282Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2019This dissertation analyzes the emergence of the private fisheries observer industry, and the introduction of digital electronic monitoring technologies, in conjunction with the quota-based management system in the U.S. West Coast groundfish fishery. Through interviews, participant observation and textual and discourse analysis, I investigate how the outsourcing of data collection has impacted fisheries science-management agendas and fishermen, and how digital monitoring reconfigures socioecological relations in fisheries. I synthesize across political ecology, science and technology studies, and digital conservation studies, to theorize the emergence of a digital environmental governance regime in fisheries and conservation more broadly.application/pdfen-USnoneBycatchDigital ConservationFisheries ObserverMarine Social SciencePolitical EcologySTSGeographyEnvironmental studiesScience historyGeographyThesis