Integration Sea to Land

Organization: MDPI

Challenge Owner Name: Stephani Mangunsong

Contact: stephani@mdpi.or.id

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Challenge Statement:

Technologies exist for recording activities at-sea and processing software exist for recording on-land activities, but they are often siloed from each other preventing effective integration. A demonstration is needed for how these data sources can be integrated to enable data to freely flow from sea to on-land systems so secure and validated data can be routinely be available for importing countries.

Background:

Globally, Indonesia is one of the largest seafood producing nations. Requirements from import countries are growing more and more detailed for ensuring imported product originates from a sustainably managed fishery and was not illegal, unreported or unregulated (IUU). Compliance with such import requirements is made easier if a system for capturing the data is present in the producing country. Electronic approaches to data collection offer several benefits such as improved data quality, more cost-effective data collection as well as serving global needs for transparency and seafood traceability. To realize these benefits, various electronic data collection systems have been trialed in Indonesian waters. However, the systems are separated from each other and the path to integration. Exporters especially experience these difficulties in linking sea with to land systems in complex supply chains such as small-scale fisheries where individual fish are disaggregated into smaller products and information must follow the fish despite the disaggregation. Another key challenge is the validation of data prior to entry into land-based systems to prevent rubbish- in-rubbish-out traceability from occurring.

Possible Solution:

Yayasan Masyarakat dan Perikanan Indonesia (MDPI) has helped developed or been witness to the development and trialing of several different electronic data collection tools in the seafood sector within Indonesia. Links to these tools are included in the Resources section below. A successful solution will demonstrate a way of integrating the data collection and sharing among these various data collection tools in a logical and coherent manner. MDPI has been a part of piloting the use of the GDST’s emerging EPCIS standard for interoperable seafood traceability. This should be considered as a component for the solution developed An ideal solution should:

• be capable of differentiating between “fishing” events and “travel” events
• provide warning signal to users if fishing permit area exceeded
• connect/push relevant data to different nodes in the supply, i.e. processor and middlemen nodes
• validate data entered manually with that provided by at-sea devices and provide real-time warning signals if anomaly is detected
• be possible to implement in small-scale fisheries landing sites and processing facilities

Resources:

• http://www.trekfish.net/
• https://mdpi.or.id/tracetales/what-is-tracetales/
• http://www.pelagicdata.com/
• https://mdpi.or.id/flyer/Trafiz.pdf
• https://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=128
• [EPCIS Standard 1.2](https://www.gs1.org/sites/default/files/docs/epc/EPCIS-Standard-1.2-r-2016- 09-29.pdf)