After more than three years of refining technological developments, Sodena, France, has emerged with a new generation software to provide professional fishermen with technical solutions.
As the viability of fishing enterprises now rests on cost reduction and better product value, a skipper must now consider more and more complex technical and economic factors. To face these difficulties, Sodena has launched its new concept in fishing software, called Turbo Tactic.
Essentially a decision making tool, the software takes into account the overall operation and navigational parameters: acoustic detection, radar/ AIS/ navigation, power, trawl net control, catch ratio, etcetera. A skipper will have all this information available on his navigation software.
Numerous sensors are connected and the data displayed is correlated. Taking the acoustic data from Wassp multi-beam technology directly into account, Turbo Tactic enables the placement of the trawl net as closely as possible to the identified and qualified zones by Geonet, a "surgical" trawl net placement control. This tool enables position control using sensors placed in the trawl net. The skipper can then choose targeted, high value catches.
The quality of multi-beam measurement and processing by the new software enables very precise qualification of the seabed. Turbo Tactic is able to take into account most of the available single-beam sensors (JRC, Seascan, Roxan) to perform seabed analysis operations.
The association with Wassp constitutes a fast and accurate solution to qualify the sub-sea environment. This understanding of the environment makes limited trawling in defined zones possible.
Lastly, Turbo Tactic is linked to the Sodena Logbook, a statistical catch analysis tool which enables a profitable and sustainable fishing strategy to be established and applied.
"Our new ECDIS standard product, ensuring reliability and navigational safety, is the result of our experience with fishing fleets throughout the world and offers numerous optional applications according to the exact requirements of the skipper," explained Patrick Sauvin, CEO of Sodena.
The software's ability to evolve makes it possible to satisfy all needs for navigation systems, bathymetry and seabed analysis, trawl net positioning, consumption analysis per net haul, display of Catsat oceanographic data, weather or catch statistics.
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