SBIR Phase II: Fisheries Geographic Information Systems

*9530617辛普森在过去的三十年里，美国的商业渔业经历了巨大的增长，现在为国民生产总值贡献了500亿美元。然而，尽管1990年美国在全球渔业上岸数量上排名第五，但价值90亿美元的进口渔业产品比出口产品多34亿美元。在认识到海洋不是无限资源的情况下，为了维持这种经济增长并减少贸易逆差，健全的渔业管理至关重要。它受到个人捕捞配额(IFQ)和有限进入的限制，必须涉及资源可持续性、减少兼捕和开发综合生态系统模型的战略。科学渔业系统公司的这一小型企业创新研究第二阶段项目将实施并现场测试一种商业上可行的软件产品，名为渔民伙伴。渔民协会是一个地理信息系统(GIS)，它将整合特定捕鱼区内的所有可用数据，包括渔业、水深、海洋、大气和导航数据。基于Windows的软件将用于创建、分析、操作、打印和存储地图。由此产生的地图将被渔民用来确定一年中特定时间哪些地区最适合捕鱼。通过雇用渔民协会，商业渔民或渔业管理人员将有可能减少副渔获物，增加目标渔获量，降低作业成本，并使各自的利润最大化。渔民协会的一个固有好处是完全利用了国家海洋渔业局、国家大气研究中心和国家海洋数据中心等调查机构收集的数据。同样在第二阶段，将开发基于神经网络的自动模型生成能力，并将其集成到渔民S协会。纳入自动模式生成以产生季节前预报将扩大这一产品的吸引力，并将吸引渔业管理者也使用这一系统。在渔民协会的开发和实地测试期间，科学渔业系统将与两个捕鱼小组合作。第一组，F/V Lady Simpson，已同意提供数据并测试在阿拉斯加湾捕捞延绳钓大比目鱼和在白令海/阿留申群岛捕捞帝王蟹和奥普利奥蟹的系统。第二个渔业集团是泰森海鲜集团。泰森已经同意提供数据，协助开发，并为他们在白令海捕捞鳕鱼、鳕鱼和比目鱼的30艘拖网渔船提供测试。这一产品将有助于提高产量和回收枯竭资源的能力，从而为促进减少美国渔业产品贸易逆差带来巨大潜力。这种产品的商业潜力很大。该产品的初步市场分析已经完成，预计到2000年的销售额为1250万美元，累计利润为1030万美元*

*** 9530617 Simpson Over the past three decades, US commercial fisheries have experienced tremendous growth and now contribute $50 billion to the GNP. However, although the US ranked fifth in worldwide fishery landings in 1990, imported fishery products valued at $9 billion exceeded exports by 3.4 billion. In order to sustain this economic growth and reduce the trade deficit in the face of the realization that the ocean is not an unlimited resource, sound fisheries management is essential. It is constrained by individual fishing quotas (IFQ's) and limited entry, and must involve strategies for resource sustainability, bycatch reduction, and the development of comprehensive ecosystem models. This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project from Scientific Fishery Systems, Inc. will implement and field test a commercially viable software product entitled The Fisherman's Associate. The Fisherman's Associate is a Geographic Information System (GIS) that will integrate all of the available data within a given fishing region including fishery, bathymetric, oceanographic, atmospheric, and navigational data. Windows-based software will be used to create, analyze, manipulate, print, and store maps. The resulting maps will be used by fishermen to determine which areas are the best to fish during a specific time of the year. By employing The Fisherman's Associate, it will be possible for commercial fishermen or fisheries managers to reduce bycatch, increase target catch, decrease operational costs, and maximize their respective profits. An inherent benefit of The Fisherman's Associate is the complete utilization of data collected by survey organizations such as the National Marine Fisheries Service, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the National Oceanographic Data Center. Also during Phase II, an automatic model generation capability based on neural networks will be developed and integrated into The Fisherman s Associate. The inclusion of automatic model generat ion to produce pre-season forecasts will broaden the appeal of this product and will lure fisheries managers to utilize this system as well. Scientific Fishery Systems will be working with two fishing groups during the development and field tests of The Fisherman's Associate. The first group, the F/V Lady Simpson, has agreed to provide data and test the system for longline halibut fishing in the Gulf of Alaska and king crab and opilio crab fishing in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands. The second fishing group is Tyson Seafood Group. Tyson has agreed to provide data, assist in the development, and provide testing for their fleet of 30 trawlers that fish for cod, pollock, and sole in the Bering Sea. This product will contribute to the capability of improving yields and recovering depleted resources thus representing significant potential for facilitating the reduction of the US trade deficit in fishery products. Commercial potential for this product is excellent. The preliminary market analysis has been completed for this product indicating estimated sales by the year 2000 at $12.5 M with a cumulative profit of $10.3 M. ***