Con el apoyo de
- Productive Activities
- Fishing and Ocean-graphic system
- GSM's HORIZON
- GSM's OBJECTIVES
- Fishing Administration
- Fishing Investigation
- Certification and sustainable Fishing
- Patagonian Acuicultura
- Production Zones Classification
- Fishing and Ocean-graphic system
- Fishing Certificates
Fishing and Ocean-graphic monitoring system
The Río Negro Province has defined its politics regarding fishing along the federal and international guidelines (for example the FAO code of conduct for Responsible Fishing). With these politics in mind, the fishing authorities have developed a system of integrated monitoring on the ships to assure “good practises” in fishing. The Río Negro legislation enforces the 3.384 law that obligates the implementation of this system. “SIMPO” was developed during 2003 to 2004 by an agreement between Río Negro fishing council, the IBMP (Alte Storni) and the INVAP S.E firm.
Why SIMPO?
SIMPO provides information on fishing fleet operations, captures and “esfuerzo real” of each specie in each zone to the fishing management investigators. It also informs on fish “left-overs” from each catch and environment information (temperatures, saline levels, etc). This information is centralized in a data-base that incorporates information from other independent sources (investigation cruises, embarked observers programme, satellite images, etc). This data-base is an important tool in information export.Parallel to this, the SIMPO has a satellite trace that operates in real-time on the fishing ship to guarantee the compliance with fishing rules.
How does it work?
The system engages the following components:
Positioning module On Line
This system is based on the satellite transmission of information worldwide (Inmarsat D+ System). It consists of transmission equipment on board, that is resistant to marine environment conditions. This machine transmits position, speed and destination facts of the boat.
Information module Off Line
It consists of sealed equipment on board. A CPU is connected to a GPS that registers back-up facts on position, destination and speed of the ship.
It also receives information from surrounding units:
a digital camera that projects high resolution images of manoeuvre and fishing, a computer terminal where catch information can be entered and an electronic balance to register the captures’ weight. The CPU holds the capacity to incorporate additional connections like a datalogger that registrates environmental information of water masses (salinity, temperature, etc), and temperature sensors in the hold. The information collected on the board by way of “Off Line” is transferred to a CPD (centre of information processing), at the end of each tide and is incorporated into a data-base.
Centre of information processing (CPD)
It is composed of an informative system that carries a potent data-base that integrates all the information from the 2 sub-systems of SIMPO (On Line and Off line), also the scientific information generated from the investigation programmes of IBMP (Alte. Storni) and fishing management: investigative campaigns of monitoring, fishing stadistics and fishing observer programmes.
An additional tool of daily application in fleet control is a software visualizer (Quintué) of ship positions and irregular events alarms (equipment breakdown, ship entering into exclusion zones).
SIMPO is also connected to the fishing control federal system (Monpesat) with which it exchanges information.
For more information, visit:
www.invap.com.ar or
www.golfosanmatias.org/doc/es/SIMPORioNegro.pdf
