Benefits of The Internet of Sea for Future Commercial Fishing

Benefits of The Internet of Sea for Future Commercial Fishing - To ensure a sustainable future for fish marketing and the livelihoods of fishing communities, we have to change the way we catch fish. And we have to replace trawling method, an industrial deep sea fishing method where a large, heavy fishing net is pulled behind a boat along the seabed, which is the most destructive of fishing techniques.

Today, we know the benefits of using the internet of sea in development of underwater image recognition that able to better navigate the seas. Combine these technologies with improved ability to collect, analyze and curate vast amounts of data, and many of the tools needed to spur this disruption already exists.

To help this development, three leading seafood-processing brands – Espersen, Icelandic Seachill and Nomad Foods – have launched a design challenge aimed at reimagining fishing. They are inviting industry actors and fishermen, scientists and technology developers to come together to prototype transformational design concepts for new gear to address the following four objectives:
 

• Harvest high quality and affordable seafood from sustainable fish stocks, today and in the future.
• Reduce or eliminate the negative environmental impact of trawler fishing, including fuel and GHG emissions and reduce he amount of time boats have their gear in the water searching for fish.
• Help the fisherman to better identify locations, species and movements of fish before fishermen even put their gear in the water so they can select particular species.
• Generate real and tangible benefits to the fishermen.