FISHCARM

Marine recreational fishing is a non-professional activity practiced for leisure and/or sport by approximately 350 million people around the world. The European Union and the scientific community have a growing interest in knowing the effects that the activity has on fishing resources, and in the long term, the collection of recreational maritime fishing data will allow the construction of a time series of data on catches and records of species, constituting a reliable and robust source of information for decision-making processes in possible management strategies for the seas and oceans.
The FISHCARM application allows you to report the data obtained during recreational fishing sessions from a boat, providing photographs of the catches, weights and sizes, and sending them from the mobile phone to a data server. At the same time, the application allows the user to maintain a live record of each fishing session with all the information of their leisure and/or competition days in which they carried out the activity.
Providing this data makes us participants in what is today called “citizen science,” contributing with our information to increase knowledge of the seas and facilitate their good ecological status.
This project has been co-financed with the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) and with funds from the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia.