You can feel safe onboard, you can do your job.”Observers can spend up to months at sea - Jude says the financial benefit, passion for the ocean and ability to see the world are draw cards to an otherwise challenging profession.REPORTER: "What compliance breaches did you witness?"JUDE: "Purse seine vessel setting on whales associated with free schools to the schools, shark finning.On one of my trips on a Chinese longliner, I was obstructed from doing my job by the captain and it was reported."REPORTER: "Do you feel any changes have occured in the profession to make it safer?"JUDE: "We now have the observer compensation scheme So when they are harassed when on fishing vessels by the crew, they can press the devices that will send out an SOS.”While fisheries observers play a vital role, it's stressed, they are not the silver bullet when it comes to curtailing overfishing.According to Solomon Islands Ministry of Fisheries and Marine resources, electronic monitoring technology featuring tools like GPS, video cameras and sensors are increasingly being rolled out on commercial fishing vessels, to support verification of reporting and adherence to the rules.This is Charlyn Golu again.“We install the cameras on board so they record 24 hours operations of the activities on board