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Evaluate Deckhand Investment Readiness and Develop a best-practice Global Commercialisation Road Map for Execution with Potential Investors

The global fishing industry predominately uses paper to record regulatory and other data. While fisheries management and research agencies globally are attempting to move to digital reporting of mandatory information, an estimated 80% of fishing vessels are small (<12m) and are not suited for adopting desktop technology for data management. The Deckhand software developed by Real Time Data (RTD) was originally targeted at making the regulatory reporting requirements easier in the SA Pipi industry. It is presently used by 256 commercial lobster, prawn and Pipi fishing operations in South Australia. Global interest in the product has grown to a point where RTD has the opportunity to develop a wider global export opportunity. This investment supports the development of a best-practice Global Commercialisation "Roadmap" for Execution with Potential Investors.

Project date

31 Jan 2019-28 Feb 2019
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Principal investigator

Tom S. Robinson

Project funded by

Multiple industries
Aquaculture Wild catch fisheries

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) is a co-funded partnership between its two stakeholders, the Australian Government and the …
  • Location

    Australia

  • Organisation type

    Research funding body

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