We do have to have some training, of course, but the community fishers.... Actually, one reason we started community fishers was the Pacific Salmon Foundation's hallmark approach to citizen science. It's really putting an instrument in the hands of these communities. They gather data in their own way, so it really is pretty seamless.
Some communities on the B.C. coast have their own boats. In the Arctic, during the winter, they drill holes in the ice and put the sensors through the ice. The sensor systems have proven to be pretty robust.
There is such keen interest in communities collecting their own data. I think it has the potential to grow almost seamlessly, with a modest amount of funding, as has already been described.