Fishing Logbook solution for the commercial fishing industry

Olfish – Dynamic Data Logger: the ultimate electronic fisheries logbook and fishing reports solution. A complete shore and vessel Electronic Reporting System (ERS) for the commercial fishing fleet, fully compliant with (EU 1077/2008) fisheries reporting regulations, fully customizable and suitable for any fishery anywhere in the world.

The Olfish Dynamic Data Logger is an intelligent, database solution for the capture and management of all fishing data in real time or from old records. Olfish is capable of collecting, analyzing, plotting, mapping, reporting, tracing and transmitting all information related to commercial fishing operations.

The Olfish Dynamic Data Logger is used by a variety of users and interest groups such as skippers, commercial fishery managers, scientists, enforcement agents, quota managers, observers, conservation groups, factory managers, fleet managers, gear technologists and more.

Olfish is a multi-fisheries, multi-species, generic and still highly customisable fishing logbook. It was specifically designed to address the complex data collection and reporting requirements of modern fishing operations. Olfish components are fully integrated to create a user-friendly data management system to be used on the vessel bridge and/or the vessel processing area or the fishing deck to collect and transmit fishing catch data in real time.

Features list

• Olfish Dynamic Data Logger (DDL) is a touch-screen ready, GIS-based, data capturing, front-end software solution for the recording and reporting of any fishing data
• Olfish- DDL was specially customised for the data collection and reporting requirements of the International Commercial Fishing Industry.
• Includes an onboard vessel unit and a master (fleet) shore unit.
• Vessel Unit: Vessel movements are monitored 24/7 using the built-in GPS-logger utility which provides Olfish-DDL with ‘real-time’ and post event positional data.
• Target audience (data recipients) may be commercial fishing companies, scientists, compliance agencies, fish auctioneers, observer programs, etc.
• Olfish-DDL generates fishing data reports and event reports at any time, automatically or manually. Reports can be saved, viewed, edited and printed.
• Output can be a generic XML, HTML, CSV, PDF or BMP format or even as ‘formal’ look log- sheets as may be required by the compliance authorities.
• The onboard system is fully compliant with EU regulations (EU 1966/2006 and EU 1566/2007) and can compile reports in formats required by the DFO (Canadian Fishing Authorities) and AFMA (Australian Fishery Management Authority).
• Reports can be saved and transferred via mobile storage devices or alternatively, via any of the onboard SATCOM or cellular communication and transmission hardware and software.
• Data can be transferred to third party analytical tools, such as Excel and/or SPSS or can be analysed by the Olfish-DDL built-in analytical tools.