Sustainable Fisheries Management

Monitoring Vessels and Fishing Boats

We help fishermen comply with global regulations by providing robust, marine-grade transponders. These devices ensure reliable and secure data transmission.

Our fishing vessel monitoring systems are tailored for all types of vessels, including industrial boats, pirogues, canoes, coastal boats, and other fishing equipment.

Currently, over 18,000 vessels worldwide are equipped with CLS VMS solutions, ensuring ideal compliance and safety.

Intelligence Services: CATSAT

CATSAT is an onboard software package designed to help fishermen identify the best fishing locations using oceanographic correlations and their own knowledge. By using space oceanography and complex models developed by CLS, CATSAT enables users to make informed operational decisions and plan their trips. This helps reduce costs and impacts on the oceans, while also increasing selectivity in catch.

The software relies on the expertise of oceanographers and scientists specialized in fishing activities, biological and oceanographic phenomena, and marine ecosystem modeling experts. This combination of knowledge allows CATSAT to provide precise and effective tools for the sustainable management of marine resources.

Marine Ecosystem Modeling

In 2006, CLS launched the Marine Ecosystem Modeling and Satellite Monitoring (MEMMS) activity to create tools, products and applications at the interface between operational oceanography and users, whether academic, institutional or private.

This initiative is based on the development of SEAPODYM, an innovative ocean ecosystem model. A key component of SEAPODYM is the representation of micronekton, small marine organisms that serve as prey for large oceanic predators, and as predators of the eggs and larvae of pelagic species. The model predicts the production and biomass of six functional groups of micronekton between the surface and 1000 m depth, as well as an additional group representing zooplankton, larval food.

By combining these biological variables with physical variables such as temperature, currents and dissolved oxygen, we are able to model and predict for a given species:

• Spawning habitat
• Larval density index
• Feeding habitat
• Concentration zones and migration corridors
• Hot spots offering persistent favorable conditions

This critical information is essential for sustainable fisheries management and marine resources conservation.

Electronic Catch Reporting Systems

Electronic catch communication (ERS) improves fisheries management by providing rapid monitoring and accurate stock assessment, thus facilitating sustainable marine resource management. Electronic logbooks are essential for this monitoring.

CLS provides fishermen with applications and tags to comply with ERS standards, enabling the sending of electronic fishing reports, the storage and transmission of fishing data (landings, catch locations, etc.), and reliable ERS indicators.

Fighting Illegal Fishing

Illegal fishing represents a threat to the sustainability of oceans. To combat this issue, CLS combines and processes AIS and VMS data from databases, as well as radar and optical satellite imagery from multiple operators, to quickly identify suspicious vessel behavior.

This information is then made available on our decision-support platforms and in our fishing monitoring centers, facilitating proactive and effective marine resource management.