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 [...]
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 [...]
News Archive
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 [...]
Global emphasis on Ocean Science – the UN meets to discuss among others the role of science in ocean development
Though the emphasis of SMARTFISH H2020 is to develop, test and promote a suite of high-tech systems for the EU fishing sector, a linked goal is also to reduce the ecological impact of the industry. [...]
Smartfish presented by DTU at People’s Festival of Nature (Naturmødet)
Poster by SmartfishH2020 partner DTU presented at Naturmodet One of our partners - DTU - presented the SMARTFISH project and their work in WP2 during the last People’s Festival of Nature (Naturmødet) in [...]
Are you following us on Twitter?
SmartfishH2020 is on Twitter, an increasingly popular social media platform with academics as well as students, policymakers, politicians and the general public and as such, it is a platform where SmartfishH2020 has chosen to make [...]
Annual Meeting in Bilbao, Spain
The SMARTFISH annual meeting was recently held in Bilbao, Spain, hosted by partner AZTI and it was a great success and a necessary few days of updating one another on progress, risks, opportunities and the [...]
SOFIA 2018 is out!
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) is the flagship publication of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department and is published every two years to provide policy-makers, civil society and those whose livelihoods depend on [...]