A Horizon Europe Innovation Action
developing and demonstrating digital solutions
for small-scale, long-distance, and recreational fisheries.
DigiWaves addresses the needs and challenges of small-scale fisheries (SSF), long-distance fisheries (LDF), and recreational fisheries (RF). Building on SmartFish, EveryFish, and OptiFish, the DigiWaves project develops and demonstrates practical and scalable solutions for these diverse fisheries contexts.
A future where small-scale, long-distance, and recreational fisheries are fully integrated into a transparent, efficient, trusted, and data-driven European fisheries management system.
Small-scale vessels are the least covered by digital monitoring, as existing systems are costly and hard to fit on small boats. DigiWaves deploys compact electronic monitoring, vessel tracking and catch-reporting tools on working vessels in Iberia, the UK, Norway, Denmark, Greece and La Réunion.
Long-distance fleets operate far from port authorities, making catch verification difficult and costly. DigiWaves deploys remote electronic monitoring and near real-time tracking on tuna purse seiners in the Indian Ocean and on vessels in the Falkland Islands.
Across four clusters
supporting fisheries monitoring, electronic reporting, vessel tracking, and data collection.
cameras and onboard AI that record and classify catch as it comes aboard
systems that
show where vessels are and when they are fishing
tools that
let fishers and anglers report catch simply and reliably
underpinning them all, that generates training images for the AI, removing the need for
thousands of hand-labelled photos.
20 organisations from 9 European countries working together to modernise fisheries monitoring and governance.
