Call for Expressions of Interest: Economic Analysis of Novel Machine
Fisheries Innovation & Sustainability (FIS) is the coalition of experts driving innovation for a prosperous and sustainable UK seafood industry. We invite Expressions of Interest (EoI) from applicants to address the research requirement outlined below. The EoI period will close on Friday 31 October. Project summary FIS will commission an
Pioneering Prawn Stunning and Tailing Machine Nets Funding For Next Phase
A pioneering project led by Fisheries Innovation & Sustainability (FIS), and involving a unique coalition of seafood supply chain businesses, has secured funding from Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) to drive forward the next phase of development of its innovative prawn stunning and tailing machine,
A plan for change – FIS’s reaction to new fisheries fund
The saying ‘don’t look a gift horse in the mouth’ is nonsense. Anyone with animals knows that a free horse could cost dearly in vet bills, so checking all orifices is exactly what you should do. Reactions to the £360m Fishing & Coastal Growth Fund have been similarly sceptical. The
Success for first test of pioneering machine
A team of seafood experts has broken new ground in on board automation. For the first time, a prototype ‘stunning and tailing’ machine has been tested at sea on a commercial fishing boat catching nephrops (langoustine) to be made into scampi. The ability to stun and tail nephrops at sea
First full-scale trials of AI aided Smartrawl – Phase 5 report now available
Earlier this year, field trials in Shetland marked the first full-scale deployment of Smartrawl, the eagerly awaited solution to fisheries discards and bycatch. Despite winter weather, the fully integrated system was successfully deployed and recovered from a small fishing vessel. The report on this Phase of Smartrawl’s development is available