Various implementations described herein are directed to a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, may cause the computer to receive a location, a date, a wind direction, a water temperature, a species, or combinations thereof. The computer may use the location, date, wind direction, water temperature, species, or combinations thereof to retrieve fishing data. The computer may analyze the retrieved fishing data to determine one or more suggested fishing locations.

Various implementations described herein are directed to a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, may cause the computer to receive a location, a date, a wind direction, a water temperature, a species, or combinations thereof. The computer may use the location, date, wind direction, water temperature, species, or combinations thereof to retrieve fishing data. The computer may analyze the retrieved fishing data to determine one or more suggested fishing locations.

This publication relates to a system and a method for hauling fish gear, such as longlines, gillnets or demersal seine nets, into a fishing vessel (10) and collecting and transporting catch (12) to a working station, using a hatch (16) in a part of a hull exposed to the sea and arranged in a water line region (27) of the vessel (10); a vertical well (18) for receipt of at least pa rt of the catch through the hatch (16); a transport device for transporting the catch to the deck; and with means for bringing the catch to flow towards the transport device. The transport device (24,25) used is arranged in a shaft (19), separated from the well (18), and a closeable opening or hatch (23) is arranged in a wall or bulkhead (21) between the well (18) and the shaft (19) 127 and with devices for opening and closing the opening or hatch (23), and a bottom (22) in the shaft (19).

A system to monitor compliance with fishery management regulations by recording time and location stamped video of a catch. The system utilizes battery powered miniature camera/DVR modules capable of being mounted virtually anywhere on a fishing vessel. The cameras are activated by software triggers using motion and changes in hydraulic pressure to avoid the capture of unwanted video and unnecessarily draining the battery. A method of analyzing the video data to ascertain species, size, and mass is also disclosed.

A method of harvesting crustaceans that utilizes a trap and buoy system, each trap being equipped with a digital camera and a light flash mechanism and being electrically connected to a buoy which has a wireless broadcast system to forward images received from the camera wirelessly to a further location that is equipped to receive the wirelessly transmitted image and to display the image to a human user. The method begins with laying out traps in the ocean, in a grid having a first grid spacing. Then for each trap, repeatedly lighting the trap with the flash mechanism and forming an image with the digital camera and sending the image to the further location. Then monitoring the images. Finally, in reliance on the images deciding to begin laying out traps in a grid, having a second grid spacing that is tighter than the first grid spacing, around a particular trap.

A method of harvesting crustaceans that utilizes a trap and buoy system, each trap being equipped with a digital camera and a light flash mechanism and being electrically connected to a buoy which has a wireless broadcast system to forward images received from the camera wirelessly to a further location that is equipped to receive the wirelessly transmitted image and to display the image to a human user. The method begins with laying out traps in the ocean, in a grid having a first grid spacing. Then for each trap, repeatedly lighting the trap with the flash mechanism and forming an image with the digital camera and sending the image to the further location. Then monitoring the images. Finally, in reliance on the images deciding to begin laying out traps in a grid, having a second grid spacing that is tighter than the first grid spacing, around a particular trap.

The present invention relates to a harvesting system (11, 12, 13, 14, 24, 28) for harvesting zooplankton or mesopelagic fishes, said system comprising: an underwater device (1, 4, 7, 16, 23, 29) for being lowered and towed into the sea, said underwater device comprising a housing provided with one or more inlets (30) adapted to receive a zooplankton or mesopelagic fishes-containing fluid, wherein said housing comprises one or more manifolds (2); said underwater device further comprising one or more sources of light (26, 27) facilitating schooling of zooplankton towards an illuminated area; a fluidic connection (21) fluidically connecting said underwater device to a surface vessel; wherein said one or more inlets are inlets to said one or more manifolds and said one or more manifolds converge into said fluidic connection, wherein said one or more sources of light are located within said one or more inlets.

The present invention relates to a harvesting system (11, 12, 13, 14, 24, 28) for harvesting zooplankton or mesopelagic fishes, said system comprising: an underwater device (1, 4, 7, 16, 23, 29) for being lowered and towed into the sea, said underwater device comprising a housing provided with one or more inlets (30) adapted to receive a zooplankton or mesopelagic fishes-containing fluid, wherein said housing comprises one or more manifolds (2); said underwater device further comprising one or more sources of light (26, 27) facilitating schooling of zooplankton towards an illuminated area; a fluidic connection (21) fluidically connecting said underwater device to a surface vessel; wherein said one or more inlets are inlets to said one or more manifolds and said one or more manifolds converge into said fluidic connection, wherein said one or more sources of light are located within said one or more inlets.

A harvesting unit with one or more pumps including one or more suction nozzles directed towards the seabed, one or more inlets that lead from the suction nozzle to the pump, an outlet to a sorting device, one or more motors for driving the one or more pumps, where the sorting device, which at least separates shellfish from bycatch and foreign bodies, has an outlet for shellfish leading to a collecting unit, a structural main frame that carries at least the harvesting unit, and a towing and launching system for deployment and propulsion of the harvesting unit.

In some embodiments, the methods (and systems) may generate, from the aft direction of a marine vessel, one or more pulses of sound. The methods (and systems) may receive, at the aft direction of a marine vessel, one or more echoes, in response to the generated one or more pulses of sound interacting with one or more physical objects. The methods (and systems) may perform an analysis on the received one or more echoes based upon the generated one or more pulses of sound. The analysis may be performed based upon space-time Doppler filtering. The physical objects may include game fish. The analysis may be based upon the size and/or location of atleast one of the one or more physical objects. The analysis may include acoustic detection, localizing, tracking, and/or sizing of at least one of the one or more physical objects.