BlueFinger, the marine subsidiary of Cybit, has launched Saffire-ERS, a commercially available electronic catch reporting system to assist authorities to record, report and process catch-related fishing data in accordance with international fishing regulations.
The accessibility and visibility of this information provided by BlueFinger's Saffire-ERS is designed to aid authorities in their efforts to reduce illegal fishing and proactively manage stocks.
Saffire-ERS enables authorities to paperlessly manage the large volume of data generated by recording the whole process of catch to sale including species, landings, transhipment and sales. This contributes to the management of conservation and sustainable harvesting of fish stocks in an increasingly global regulatory environment.
The system went through initial trials leading to full implementation by the UK's maritime authorise managed by DEFRA and already allows for data sharing with neighbouring states and regional facilities, including the Community Fisheries Control Agency Data Centre in Vigo.
The web-delivered database and logging system is an extension of BlueFinger's Fisheries Vessel Monitoring System, which is deployed in over 20 nation states around the globe to protect Exclusive Economic Zones and fisheries. The software development of Saffire-ERS is an extension of the monitoring services BlueFinger already supplies to the commercial fisheries market.
