The OPP has contracted a company from Galicia, experts in the digitalisation of fisheries, with whom it is working to create its own database with all the data necessary to carry out any type of procedure. This database is expected to be completed by the end of 2022. A mobile application for shipowners and seafarers is planned for the beginning of 2023.
The new Producers Organisation intends to reach collaboration agreements with all the research institutions involved in improving knowledge of fishery resources (CSIC, IEO, Universities, etc.), and to plan annual actions to better understand the behaviour of the resources and thus be able to implement measures to promote their conservation.
For all these reasons, the Producers Organisation will carry out the following actions through this measure:
1) Design and agree with the scientific community the collaborations necessary for the collection of the required data to obtain knowledge of the fishing resources.
2) Plan and control the activity of the associated fishing fleet, taking into account the previous activities and the current regulations.
3) Incorporate ICT technologies into the management and control of fishing activity.
Given that many of the actions to be carried out can take advantage of ICT technologies to improve their implementation, the OPP will seek to introduce mobile applications for the associated producers, to speed up and facilitate bureaucratic procedures. For example, in the control of fishing effort days, developing an APP that allows consumption to be measured and compliance to be monitored. Also, in the processing of dispatches with harbour authorities, obtaining the necessary certificates for navigation, expiry control, online procedures, etc.
