FISHING GEAR RESEARCH
Fishing gear research is usually conducted aboard commercial fishing vessels out in sea. Turkish fishers are typically committed to their traditions and less open to new technologies and ideas. Being a fishing gear researcher is [...]
SMARTFISH H2020 FEATURED IN CNN INTERNATIONAL
The SMARTFISH H2020-project are featured in CNN International - series- Business evolved about overfishing. You can see the interview with project lease Rachel Tiller (SINTEF Ocean) and WP-leader John Reidar Mathiassen (SINTEF Ocean) here. [...]
SMARTFISH mentioned in Horizon – “Hydroacoustic 3D snapshots of fish habitats could help stem overfishing”
SMARTFISH was mentioned, and Dr. Lars T. Kyllingstad (SINTEF Ocean), who is part of the management team in the project, was interviewed in i Horizon (31. Aug. 2020): "Hydroacoustic 3D snapshots of fish habitats could help stem overfishing". Read it here. " One of [...]
How to publish open access in Horizon2020
"Green" open access The authors archive (self-archiving or by a third person), in an open repository, the final version of the article or the final manuscript peer-reviewed. ACCEPTED/POST PRINT VERSION – last version before published. [...]
How to acknowledge Smartfish in publications?
This is the official link to how to acknowledge EU funding: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/docs/h2020-funding-guide/grants/grant-management/acknowledge-funding_en.htm Use the following text in an acknowledgement section and ensure that the EU emblem (link to loads of accepted versions: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/symbols/flag_en#eu-emblem) is also [...]
SeinePrecog – Prototypes calibration and preliminary tests
Participants from AZTI and ZUNIBAL is currently working on a parallel task related to the calibration in the laboratory of the SeinePrecog. The following photos and video are showing the ZUNIBAL's echosounder prototypes calibration, and [...]
News Archive
Nephrops – and where to find them!
Photo credit: Adobe Stock Nephrops is a genus of lobster, but is substantially smaller, with long narrow claws. Nephrops norvegicus is known by a number of other names as well, such as scampi, Norway lobster, Dublin [...]
IPR and Serious Games
Magnus Hakvåg from House of Knowledge During the annual meeting in Aberdeen, Magnus Hakvåg from House of Knowledge came to us to present about Intellectual Property Rights and project results - and he [...]
Annual Meeting in Aberdeen, Scotland
Three days of annual meeting in Aberdeen Scotland has come to an end and the Smartfish project has started its third year - we are past the half way point in the project, and this [...]
Experiments at the Oceanarium in Hirtshals
Chief Scientis at SINTEF Ocean, Bent Herrmann at Hirtshals, Denmark In this North Sea Oceanarium, researchers and the industry work to develop future technologies for fisheries in the SmartfishH2020 project. One of the [...]
Interview with lead PI at UEA in Government Europa Quarterly
Michal Mackiewicz at University of East Anglia discusses the importance of technology in aquaculture in the online magazine Government Europa Quarterly. Click the image to go directly to the article - it starts on page [...]
Smartfish participants present at Seafood Conference in Iceland November 7th 2019
Wes Erikson, a commercial fisher and Director of the Halibut Advisory board in British Columbia presents ‘The evolution of a commercial fishery: Experience of fishermen working under REM’ during hte SEafood Conference Iceland [...]
What is the Brexit risk for fisheries?
Though there still is no Brexit deal, time is ticket closer. Though the UK and the EU reached an agreement in 2018 on the conditions for Brexit, the UK parliament did n ot approve the [...]
New article published by SMARTFISH
Smartfish partners from UEA have published an article in ICES on an analysis of video from CCTV systems installed on fishing trawlers entitled: Deep neural networks for analysis of fisheries surveillance video and automated [...]
VIDEO from partner DTU on real-time trawl monitoring system
One of the goals of the SMARTFISH project is to further develop the latest technologies in underwater observation, and test and promote a range of high-tech systems for the EU fisheries sector. DTU is one [...]