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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Dan, I'm tempted to add that description into our event reminder that's about to go out. Brilliant. |
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The fantastic team of fishing innovators and industry leaders at Fisheries Innovation Scotland (FIS) are calling for expressions of... |
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Hello, I'm the Science Comms Manager at the MSC. I want to let you all know about our Ocean Stewardship Fund which opened for... |
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Hi Wildlabbers, There's another free webinar series coming up, starting this Thursday, 24 September! This one... |
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Hi folks, Just wanted to share this very cool and relevant three-day event, Smart Oceans 2020! It's a free conference focusing on... |
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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/ |
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Hi Wildlabbers, This week in our Sustainable Fishing Challenge, we're discussing how fishing gear itself could... |
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