Fishing has always involved ingenuity and invention, from the Pacific Islanders’ ancient tailoring of bones and shells into fish hooks (long before metal arrived in their cultures) to modern uses of everything from rotational sensors to machine learning to digitally understand where, when and how fishing takes place. Innovation typically takes place “in-house”, i.e. led by the fishing industry itself, with an increasing movement of start-ups, NGOs and entrepreneurs – motivated primarily by tackling the environmental and social challenges of seafood production – now joining this challenge. We have created a new “Sustainable Fishing Challenges” group on WILDLABS to try foster more of this innovation and collaboratively make fishing fit for the future.
At a very basic level, the three essential elements of fishing are 1. The vessel, 2. The fishing equipment (or “gear”), and 3. The fish (obviously). While some commonplace technologies are unrecognisable from those of the past (i.e. sonar fish finders, digital catch logbooks), some of the crucial components of the job have altered little (i.e. net design). Newly proposed vessel, gear or fish catch monitoring technologies must be robust, efficient and durable, meaning innovation needs to be answering a genuine need and be subject to thorough, collaborative testing (and consensus-building) before new advances are adopted across whole fleets or countries.
In this group, we challenge users to contribute their insights/expertise/opportunities across each of these three areas.
Learn more about these challenge areas:
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Fauna & Flora
Fisheries and Biodiversity Techical Specialist - lead FFI's insititutional fisheries strategy
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- 14 Discussions
- 3 Groups
Allen Institute for AI
Communications for EarthRanger and Skylight
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- 5 Discussions
- 10 Groups
- @nadyam
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Michigan State University
Conservation geneticist at Michigan State University. Co-founder of iCatch. Solving problems in monitoring, traceability, and enforcement through rapid species identification tech.
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- 3 Discussions
- 6 Groups
PhD Candidate in autonomous marine biodiversity modelling
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- 8 Groups
- @mariahmeek
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Michigan State University
Dr. Mariah Meek is the PI and co-founder of iCatch, an Associate Professor at Michigan State University, and the Director of Research at The Wilderness Society.
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- 5 Groups
- @aranFish
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CTO at SafetyNet Technologies
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- 5 Groups
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- 2 Groups
- @MattyD797
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I am studying biotic problems with abiotic intelligence. My research focus is in computational ecology within fishery acoustics, machine learning, remote sensing, and combining visual and audio species identification systems.
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- 12 Groups
- @DanielHugelmann
- | He / Him
Hi, I'm the co-founder of OceanLabs Seychelles. We design and build environmental and marine remote sensing devices for conservation NGOs. As an engineer and avid diver, with a love for the environment, connecting conservation and technology was the natural thing to do!
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- 1 Discussions
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- @DBayley
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Fauna & Flora & University College London (UCL)
I'm a tropical marine ecologist, specialising in coral reefs, MPAs, and blue carbon. Within conservation technology my focus has been around developing underwater imaging techniques, primarily to assist coral reef monitoring
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- 5 Groups
Co-founder and CEO of Goldfish.io
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- 1 Discussions
- 6 Groups
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
I am a postdoctoral researcher using animal tracking technologies to investigate how chemical pollution influences fish movement and behaviour.
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- 7 Groups
- @RHugtenburg
- | He/They
Student at Aberystwyth University. Bug Fanatic🪲. Worked at Octophin Digital for my industrial year placement 🐙.
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November 2023
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Using AIS Data to Investigate the World’s Fishing Ports
2 February 2021 12:00am
Small-scale fisheries and tech resources
5 January 2021 9:45am
FIS Call for Expressions of Interest (closed)
8 December 2020 12:00am
Challenge #3: Fish Catch Monitoring
4 December 2020 8:47pm
Sustainable Fishing Challenges: Fish Catch Monitoring
4 December 2020 12:00am
Tech Tutors: How do I use open access remote sensing data to monitor fishing?
2 December 2020 9:12pm
Fishery focussed Tech Tutor on 3 December
1 December 2020 3:17pm
Call for interest in the digital future of Scottish fishing
26 November 2020 9:21am
How do I use open access remote sensing data to monitor fishing?
24 November 2020 12:00am
Hackathon Opportunity: Vaquita Hacks
10 November 2020 12:00am
Marine Stewardship Council offering up to £50,000 for projects using electronic monitoring
9 October 2020 1:48pm
SmartOceans 2020
8 October 2020 12:00am
Event: Advances in Fisheries Electronic Monitoring
21 September 2020 4:53pm
Webinar: Advances in Fisheries Electronic Monitoring
21 September 2020 12:00am
Event: Smart Oceans 2020
17 September 2020 11:27pm
Challenge #1: Fishing vessels of the future
4 August 2020 9:08am
20 August 2020 12:01am
The updated TNC/CEA report on electronic monitoring in fisheies just came out, which is very much on point for this group. https://fisheriesem.com/
Challenge #2: Fishing gear innovations
19 August 2020 3:49pm
Sustainable Fishing Challenges: Fishing Gear Innovations
19 August 2020 12:00am
Sustainable Fishing Challenges: Fishing Vessels of the Future
4 August 2020 12:00am
Competition: 2020 Hackaday Prize
26 May 2020 12:00am
12th International Forum on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
14 May 2020 12:00am
Hawai'i Conservation Conference
28 February 2020 12:00am
Seafood fund seeks ideas for innovation projects up to £250k
11 February 2020 12:00am
Webinar: New technologies to revolutionize sustainable fishing in the digital age: EDF’s Smart Boat Initiative
12 August 2019 12:00am
From the Field: Melissa Schiele
10 June 2019 12:00am
GWP Webinar Recording: Using SMART at scale for effective wildlife protection
21 May 2019 12:00am
National Geographic Society Announces Competition to Combat Illegal Fishing
1 February 2018 12:00am
Wildlife innovation grants available!
11 January 2018 12:00am
Download New Conservation Tech Guidelines: Camera Traps, Acoustics and LiDAR
11 October 2017 12:00am
Kids, Drones & Science At The Water’s Edge
4 October 2017 12:00am
1 December 2020 4:41pm
Dan, I'm tempted to add that description into our event reminder that's about to go out. Brilliant.