GPSMonitoring: A R package for small scale fisheries monitoring using GPS logger

After many pilot studies, fisheries monitoring is now ready to generalized the use of GPS logger to improve fishing area knowledge. This is a critical need for fisheries management support for spatial regulation of fleets activities. The GPSMonitoring R package, aims to gather previous studies feedback and provide a set of tools to cure, prepare and analyze GPS data for fishing event detection. A set of data related to Guinean Canoe collected by the CNSHB is provided with the package. This data is used to produce the vignette that illustrate a full use of the package. •Fishing activity location is necessary for fishing regulation.•GPS loggers are now fully available for small scale fisheries monitoring.•Data produced need specific curation and analysis.