GEOCAP- Integration of Total Catch Databases into a Spatial Infrastructure for Sustainable Fisheries Management
Pleamar program
Description
After SICAPTOR, the feedback received from national and European administrations is that the objective, in the medium term, is for REM systems to be a reliable, robust and widespread source for obtaining total catch data and even that they could be used to transmit this information to the competent authorities. In addition, from a scientific/biological point of view, it would allow a real-time assessment of the state of the marine environment and resources.
While technologies continue to be developed to achieve this goal, at GEOCAP we propose a novel data capture system to be introduced into the geoportal in the very short term. Instead of capturing the data through REM systems such as iObserver, we intend to implement a system that allows us to collect the data entered in the Electronic Logbook (DEA), which we will do through the SEGEPESCA Tide Viewer website, and then import them into the geoportal.
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2020The main objective of the GEOCAP project is the development and implementation of a software system capable of capturing data on total catches (desired catch + unwanted catch + discards) in fishing vessels fishing in the Northwest Atlantic areas: FAO 27.8.c. and FAO 27.9.a; and the Mediterranean and Black Sea: FAO 37, once extracted individually by each shipowner through the Shipowner Website of the General Secretariat of Fisheries, and sent to the Geoportal installed in the CESGA. Once there, they will be analysed and processed in order to geolocate those areas with the highest density of unwanted catch (hereinafter CND) or discards and create a complete Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) that actively contributes to defining the general guidelines for sustainable fishing activity and minimising discards at European level.
This technical objective is accompanied by an environmental objective, which is to contribute to the reduction of discards, and an economic objective, which is to provide the fishing fleet with information made from this data, which allows them to locate and avoid those areas where there is a greater volume of CNDs or discards.
The actions of the GEOCAP project are focused on the development and implementation of a software system capable of managing data on total catches (desired + unwanted catch + discards) in fishing vessels fishing in the Northwest Atlantic (FAO 27.8.c. and 27.9.a) and Mediterranean (FAO 37) areas. Once extracted individually by each shipowner through the Shipowner Website of the General Secretariat of Fisheries (which allows each operator to consult the data of the fishing tides exclusively by means of a username and password), they are sent to the Geoportal installed in the CESGA. After receiving them in this software environment, they will be analysed and processed in it in order to geolocate those areas with the highest density of unwanted catch or discards and create a complete Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) that actively contributes to defining the general guidelines for sustainable fishing activity and minimising discards at European level.
1.- Analysis of the data provided by the tide viewer of the shipowner website of the General Secretariat of Fisheries (SGP) for each tide of each vessel and of the structure of the database created in previous projects in the CESGA geoportal, for its subsequent integration into a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Creation of a protocol/user manual for data entry into the AED.
Data entry protocol in the AED
2.- Development of an application programming interface (DEO) to capture the tidal data of the vessels of the collaborating fishing entities. The fields relevant to the project were selected and stored in a data file in .csv format. The DEO (Electronic Journal for Organizations) software is a tool that helps Producer Organizations to quickly access reports on the control of the catches of the members of the OPP, consultation of tides made and control of the quotas of each stock through an application.
Shipowner Web Data Adaptation/Integration Report – Geoportal
- Development of a system for importing/exporting the fishery data entered by the skipper in the Electronic Logbook, in the fleets of the collaborating Fishery Producer Organisations. These data were collected in real time by a geoportal, developed by the Galician Supercomputing Center (CESGA) together with IIM-CSIC and IEO.
- A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) with high predictive capacity (thanks to new data sources) has been generated for a more sustainable management of fishing activity by producer/fishermen’s associations. Its efficiency has been tested by the boats supplying their tidal data from their own computer.
DEA-IDE Data Integration Results Report
- Development of a graphical interface for the visualization of the results through which shipowners can interact with the geoportal to know in real time the areas with the highest volumes of species below size/juveniles or species for which they do not have a quota, becoming choke species. To facilitate the correct use of this interface, a user tutorial has been developed.
Report on the results of the use of the SDI
- A communication, web and social media strategy has been developed that is active throughout the project. Events, workshops, courses, offline promotional activities and a results continuation plan have been organized in order to continue the dissemination of the technical results obtained in GEOCAP.
GEOCAP- Integration of Total Catch Databases into a Spatial Infrastructure for Sustainable Fisheries Management
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