Theme 4: marine biological resources/fishing and aquaculture

The OPTIPECHE project led to the development of a reasonably-priced, high-performance multibeam sonar (code-named SMFX) for use by those working in the fishing industry. The product was principally designed to aid navigation, improve safety and, ultimately, help analyse sections of water. Following initial sea trials, it has become clear from evolving markets and fishermen's interests that the equipment could be a useful tool for both industry professionals and scientists, in identifying fish species, assessing stocks, observing species' behaviour within a column of water, applying catch techniques, and so on. 

                          

The aim of the TACTIPECHE project is to make available to those working in the fishing industry and the scientific community a system comprising the SMFX sonar and an integrated software platform, for quantitiative data analysis and decision-making support. This open-source system will feature the interfaces needed to feed into databases, electronic logbooks and fisheries' information systems. Complementing the SIAD project, TACTIPECHE will improve methods for assessing stocks by merging data from multiple sensors into a single, scientific information system. The project also forms part of an extended ITIS/ACSYS project (detection and classification of biological targets), in the latter's ongoing research into extracting characterisitcs for classifying shoals of fish.

TACTIPECHE intends to consolidate these technological advances by offering owners of scientific and fishing vessels a new system for processing acoustic measurements of the biomass and its habitat. Equipped with this new system, which will be tested at sea, vessel owners will be able to deploy catch gear, select catches within a water column and avoid by-catch more accurately, as part of a sustainable fishing strategy.
 
 

TACTIPECHE PROJECT PARTNERS :

Companies

• iXSea, Brest, project director
  

• Armement Bigouden, Le Guilvinec
   

Research centre

• IFREMER, Brest and Nantes

• Télécom-Bretagne-Laboratoire Lab-STICC, Brest

• CIDCO Québec (member of the Quebec maritime cluster, the Créneau Marin)
   

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  The Tactipeche project is officially recognised by the Pôle Mer Bretagne.