A map to decide where to shoot.
Why we exist
Quotas have a ceiling: every trip has to pay. Where to shoot is your call, from experience; the map gives you one more thing to go on each morning.
What it does and what it doesn't
It does
- It ranks the day's areas by what the catch may be worth.
- It goes out every morning, for today and the coming days.
- On your phone and on the bridge. On the bridge, even without coverage.
It doesn't
- It doesn't tell fish sizes apart or count fuel or distance.
- It doesn't guarantee a bigger catch.
- It doesn't replace the skipper's judgement: it orders the areas.
Your data is yours
The trips a boat shares with us are used to improve the map. Nobody else sees its positions or its catch. Data, confidentiality and how results are measured are agreed before going aboard.
How the map is made
From each day's state of the sea published by the Copernicus Marine Service (surface and bottom temperature, currents, chlorophyll, upwelling and fronts), from auction prices and from real trawl hauls. The sea is split into areas of about five kilometres and each one gets what the catch could be worth if you shoot there. The report is rebuilt every day.
Team
Llorenç Sebastià Marín
Co-founder · map and data
Aerospace engineer (UPM). Research internship at Texas A&M on a NASA project.
Hugo Santos Duarte
Co-founder · product
Aerospace engineer (UPM). Predictive maintenance at ITP Aero.
Marco Pérez González
Co-founder · map testing
Mathematics and computer science (UPM). Researcher at IMDEA Software.
Where we are
Today the catch map covers the Bay of Biscay; the hake map, Great Sole and the Bay of Biscay. The map already goes out every day. A mixed-species trawler from the Bay of Biscay shares its hauls with us and we have run a first test on board. We haven't yet measured results over full trips: that comes next.
Where we're going
Measure it trip by trip with more boats.