Smart fisheries technologies for an efficient, compliant and environmentally friendly fishing sector – SMARTFISH H2020

Year 2018, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 98 - 99, 30.05.2018

Hüseyin Özbilgin

Abstract

In this issue of MedFAR,
Spotlight corner introduces SMARTFISH H2020 project. The SMARTFISH H2020 is
funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020
Research & Innovation Program under grant agreement No. 77352. The project
is coordinated by Dr. Bent Herrmann (SINTEF Ocean in Norway). It is a
four-years project which started in January 2018.

The objective of the
project is to develop, test and promote a suite of high-tech systems for the EU
fishing sector, to optimize resource efficiency, to improve automatic data
collection for fish stock assessment, to provide evidence of compliance with fishery
regulations and to reduce ecological impact.

SMARTFISH H2020 exploits
technological developments in machine vision, camera technology, data
processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data analysis,
smartphones/tablets, LED technology, acoustics and ROV technology to build
systems for monitoring, analysing and improving processes for all facets of the
fishing sector, from extraction, to assessment, to monitoring and control.

The SMARTFISH H2020
systems will:

- assist fishermen in
making informed decisions during pre-catch, catching, and post-catch phases of
the extraction process. This improves catch efficiencies and compositions in
fisheries across the EU, leading to improved economic efficiency while reducing
unintended fish mortality, unnecessary fishing pressure and ecosystem damage.

- provide new data for
stock assessment from commercial fishing and improve the quality and quantity
of data that comes from traditional assessment surveys. This provides more
accurate assessment of currently assessed stocks and allow the assessment of
data-poor stocks.

- permit the automatic
collection of catch data to ensure compliance with fisheries management
regulations.

An interdisciplinary
consortium with technology developers and instrument suppliers, fishing
companies, research and fisheries management institutes and universities will
realize SMARTFISH H2020. They are active at national and international levels
and well placed to ensure the uptake of SMARTFISH H2020 systems by fishing
industry and fisheries managers and stock assessment scientists. Gear
technologists from Mersin University, Fisheries Faculty and Çukurova University, Fisheries
Faculty participate in the project, to test, demonstrate and promote SMARTFISH
H2020 systems in the Mediterranean and Black Sea purse seine and demersal trawl
fisheries.

 For further information, please visit: http://smartfishh2020.eu/

Keywords

smarfish, H2020

References

• http://smartfishh2020.eu/