SusTunTech technical workshop in Bermeo
The technical workshop was carried out in Echebastar premises in Bermeo with wide participation of all staff profiles last week (17th February 2022). AZTI, UPV/EHU and Marine Instruments presented the current advances and future project plans of SUSTUNTECH to Echebastar staff. It was an opportunity to discuss about Fishing practices, energy efficiency and sustainability [...]
SusTunTech at Report of the Working Group on machine learning in marine science (WGMLEARN)
The 2021 Report of the Working Group on machine learning in marine science (WGMLEARN), where SusTunTech participates, is now available on the WGMLEARN community page (https://www.ices.dk/community/groups/Pages/WGMLEARN.aspx). The WGMLEARN group was formed to explore the use of machine learning in the marine sciences, and work towards increasing knowledge of and competence with relevant methods among [...]
SusTunTech route optimization framework at Ocean Sciences Meeting
This conference program (https://www.aslo.org/osm2022/) works toward the goals of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. SusTunTech has presented its route optimization framework within the New Solutions for New Data: Machine Learning for in Situ Observations of Aquatic Life. The processes controlling the abundance and distribution of marine and limnic organisms [...]
SusTunTech at Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Certification webinar
SusTunTech actively seeks to be aware and contribute to good practices that increases fisheries sustainability. Among these activities are the workshops and seminar organized by certification agencies to improve their standards implementations and applications. One of the most widely used sustainability certifications in fisheries is provided by MSC. MSC hold this week a webinar [...]
Interview about digitalization of the fishing sector and the SusTunTech project
Iñaki Quincoces was interviewed in the Basque Public Radio about fisheries digitalization, in the interview he presented the Sustuntech project as an example of the roadmap to digitalization and its advantages for fishers. https://www.eitb.eus/es/radio/radio-euskadi/programas/la-mecanica-del-caracol/detail/8628113/el-estudio-del-hombre-de-loizu-reveals-first-data- about-murder-happening-11700-years-ago/ Interview can be found from minute 27.
SusTunTech project analyse ways to improve species identification with artificial intelligence
Smart fishing is an emerging concept aiming at facilitating and making more efficient fishing by using technology including artificial intelligence. One of the limitations is the availability of information about catches at species level to improve species distribution forecasting. However, artificial intelligence can also help to improve such information as shown in a recent publication [...]