South Africa''s Olrac has developed a Traceability module at its Scottish-based subsidiary OLRAC-UK which it hopes to sell as an enhancement of its Olfish fisheries management for automated catch traceability down to bin level. It aimed the launch to coincide with new EU traceability rules that came into force on Jan 1.
It said the system offers Web viewing capability, allowing vessel catch details to be viewed remotely from anywhere in the world, in near real-time.
It says the new system exceeds the Tracefish regulations laid down by the Tracefish project and will meet and exceed the demands of the new EU and US Traceability laws for the foreseeable future. It claims Olfish is now the only product of its kind which combines a highly sophisticated electronic logbook system, dynamic reporting system, GIS system and a fully functional tracing system. It said the new generation of Olrac is a multi-species, multi-fisheries, highly customisable software product which was specifically designed to address the complex data collection and reporting requirements of modern fishing operations.
Fully integrated all Olfish can be used on the vessel bridge and/or the vessel processing area to collect and transmit fishing data in real time. Each Olfish installation has a master shore unit, which can store data from any number of vessels. Olrac has also
