Farmed Seafood Nemo

Organization: Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability

Challenge Owner Name: Louis Vichy

Support available by submitting issues through the Nemo github

Challenge Statement:

Too much of the global seafood business is still transacted by paper but with millions of fishers and farmers world-wide, there is no way for the data to be managed effectively. Seafood data needs to be digitized and that starts with making accessible tools available to the original producers of seafood such as fishers and farmers.

Background:

During the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability’s inaugural Hackathon, one of the winning entries addressed this challenge for fishers. The entry was an intuitive data-entry app which was output data captured by fishing captains into GDST/EPCIS formatted files. The app received data from fishing captains by using a chat bot and was called Nemo. This entry is a great demonstration about how digitizing data can be made accessible for early stage seafood producers. Something similar is needed in aquaculture production. While the species harvested in wild-capture and aquaculture production overlap in many instances, the steps to their production and the Key Data Elements needed differ. In aquaculture, it’s important to capture the genetic parental group(s) and individual batches of feed that contributed to each crop of farmed seafood produced as well as the stages of growing out each crop.

Possible Solution:

An effective solution to this challenge will demonstrate how the relevant GDST KDEs can be captured in an intuitive and accessible manner by farmers. Additionally, the solution will demonstrate how the data can be output in a conformant EPCIS file and shared with downstream receivers of the seafood. The effective solution could build upon the Nemo app and code base or start afresh.

Resources:

• Nemo web app
• Nemo wiki on github
• EPCIS Standard 1.2
• EPCIS Standard webpage
• [Sample seafood EPCIS event data – GDST team will supply]