Optimisation of digital catch monitoring and reporting in European Fisheries

Project Information

OptiFish

Grant agreement ID: 101136674

DOI

10.3030/101136674

EC signature date 6 December 2023

Start date 1 February 2024

End date 31 January 2028

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 5 438 952,50

EU contribution

€ 4 972 602,50

Coordinated by

EIGEN VERMOGEN VAN HET INSTITUUT VOOR LANDBOUW- EN VISSERIJONDERZOEK
Belgium

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (9)

Requirements specification and system architecture

A technical report summarising the requirements elicitation process, the obtained requirements, and the corresponding architecture for the data platform and supported systems, including all used and produced metadata and performance standards

Initial Work Plan for testing and validation

Work Plan, progress report and final report for testing and validation

Update Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation (DEC) Plan

DEC plan and updates including the results of its deployment.

First Sustainability plan and IPR management strategy

Set of clear measures to ensure sustainability and effective IPR management of OptiFish results

First Business models and go-to market strategy

A go-to- market analysis with viable pathways for end users to access technologies and tech developers to bring their solutions closer to market.

Workshop methodology - protocol for case area leaders

Protocol for case study leaders running MALs

initial Project Management Handbook

Organisational structure, operation procedures , management tools, risk management, quality assurance

Initial Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation (DEC) Plan

Initial DEC plan and updates including the results of its deployment.

Blue paper: Requirement standards

Report with minimum requirements for each technology, relative to the pilot studies and wider application

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Towards Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Marine Research, Fisheries and Environmental Management

Author(s): Jose A. Fernandes‐Salvador, Angel Borja, Asier Anabitarte, Igor Granado, Xabier Lekunberri, Yolanda Sagarminaga, Oriol Canals, Anders Lanzen, Mihailo Azhar, Jonne Kotta, Henn Ojaveer, Anna Spinosa, Ari‐Pekka Jokinen, Lumi Haraguchi, Sanjina Upadhyay Stæhr, Aritz Pérez, Iñaki Inza, Sebastian Villasante, Gabriela A. Oanta, Catarina N. S. Silva, Rachel Tiller, Julian Lilkendey
Published in: Fish and Fisheries, 2026, ISSN 1467-2960
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.70052

Automatic mapping of aquaculture activity in the Atlantic Ocean

Author(s): Xabier Lekunberri, J. David Ballester-Berman, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Jose A. Fernandes-Salvador
Published in: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Issue 132, 2024, ISSN 1569-8432
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JAG.2024.104061

Novelty Recognition: Fish Species Classification via Open-Set Recognition

Author(s): Manuel Córdova, Ricardo da Silva Torres, Aloysius van Helmond, Gert Kootstra
Published in: Sensors, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/S25051570

Machine Learning Applications for Fisheries—At Scales from Genomics to Ecosystems

Author(s): Bernhard Kühn, Arjay Cayetano, Jennifer I. Fincham, Hassan Moustahfid, Maria Sokolova, Neda Trifonova, Jordan T. Watson, Jose A. Fernandes-Salvador, Laura Uusitalo
Published in: Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, Issue 33, 2025, ISSN 2330-8249
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/23308249.2024.2423189

Conference proceedings (1)

Towards Visual Re-Identification of Fish using Fine-Grained Classification for Electronic Monitoring in Fisheries

Author(s): Thilakarathna, Samitha Nuwan; Avsar, Ercan; Nielsen, Martin Mathias; Pedersen, Malte
Published in: NLDL 2026
Publisher: 7th Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18374122

Other (1)

A Digital Architecture for Smarter Catch Monitoring in EU Fisheries: The OptiFish Approach

Author(s): Koukourikos, Antonis, Fernandez, Josean, Blondeel, Lancelot, de Boer, Teun
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17182052