Fisheries Management Systems

Cefas has many years experience of providing both policy and scientific advice, and technical solutions to the problems posed by Fisheries Management.

We design, develop, and implement cost effective, customer focussed Fisheries Management Information Systems delivering timely and accurate data to fish stock managers.

Cefas' Fisheries Management systems receive data from a wide range of sources before delivering an integrated and customised output to clients

Fisheries Surveillance System - Data collected from Patrol vessels, air surveillance, satellite tracking systems and ports.
Fishing Activity Database - Data collected from ports and Fisheries HQ.
Vessel File & Licensing System - Data collected from ports.
Biological Sampling System - Data collected from ports and fisheries research institutes.

Customers

Successive generations of our systems have been used over the past 15 years by U.K. Government; scientific users; support European Commission databases and are in daily use by over 150 staff throughout the U.K.

Data Sources

Our software systems collect and integrate all the Fisheries Management data from a wide range of sources:

• Fish catch data from commercial fishermen
• Fishing Vessel Licensing and Vessel registration data
• Catch data from logbooks and other sources
• Monitoring Control and Surveillance (MCS) data from
  • Vessel Monitoring Systems
  • Physical sightings and boardings
  • Other states
• Biological data from
  • Commercial landings
  • Scientific investigations
  • Fishing survey systems

Key System Features and Benefits

• Very high level of integration using our modular systems
• Standard or customised reports
• Low running costs
• Flexible reporting tools
• Efficient and cost effective Fisheries Management solutions
• Systems designed for
  • Ease of update and maintenance
  • High performance with very large datasets
  • Reliability