SCANMAR ScanBas
The registration and storage of all data during fishing will have great significance in the times ahead. The areas of usefulness are many. It will have great significance in being able to control all phases of a trawl haul, make the fishing more efficient through planning and also when it comes to information for the ship-owner and customer.
ScanBas registers data for a number of purposes, for example:
• Register everything that happens during a trawl haul, so that the new
shift is quickly updated or to be able to rewind to see if anything happened
while the screen was not being monitored
• Register all relevant data in a trawl haul to be able to compare it to a
corresponding haul at the same grounds at an earlier time
• Register all data relating to fishing gear and rigging of this, to have reference
data from different grounds, or when new equipment is adjusted
• Register weather and environmental data to get started with efficient fishing
as quickly as possible when arriving at the fishing grounds
• Register all catch and customer data. The aim is to get the best possible
information for the shipping company, but also for sale, considering
traceability (catch area and quality)
In addition to the data that are registered automatically from Scanmar sensors and other connected instrumentation like GPS, winches, echo sounder and so on, additional data can be input automatically or manually by ScanBas. This allows being able to operate several slave displays with a keyboard which can be placed in production, cabin etc.
Database with information about the haul
The database holds all sets of data about the vessel, identification and so on, depending on the shipping company’s wish so that it is easy to register the specific data at every haul. A “barcode” like system that reduces the amount of transferred data and secure the shipping company against intruders getting access to the reports will ensure that the shipping company and customer getting the data transferred at minimum costs.
User areas are expanded
Increasingly the focus is being put on selective fishing, species and size, on damage to the bottom fauna and energy consumption in proportion to the catch efficiency. The possibility exists that this will lead to further regulations and limits to the catch possibilities.
For fishermen this will mean increased demands on efficiency and, if possible, even greater focus on reduced costs.
Use historical data in planning
Under these conditions the best possible planning will give the best results. Planning is mainly about making use of experience and historical data to try to predict how things will develop. Changes to climatic conditions and the great ocean currents, with constant variations to biomass, do not make it easy to predict these developments.
With the ScanBas system it will in time be possible to log all data that are relevant to the catch situation and compare them with historical plots. During later hauls at the same GPS position the historical plots may be displayed on the screen along with the ongoing haul. This makes it easy to determine whether to carry on fishing or discontinue and try somewhere else.
Another important element will be to collect data at fishing grounds to be able to understand and predict the cause of fish moving over time as a consequence of changes to temperature, currents or number of vessels at the grounds.
The ScanBas system has the far-reaching use of logging and registration of data as one of its main aims. When Scanmar sensors are used to register all conditions that influence the efficiency of the fishing, many of the elements of importance to the fish quality and origin in relation to traceability are also being registered.
