Fisheries Services

The Catch Accountancy System (CAS) is an integrated web-based platform developed for Fiji's Ministry of Fisheries to track and reconcile all landed offshore catch, ensuring every legal catch is accounted for and preventing illegal fish laundering. The system captures real-time data from permits, inspections, unloading, and processing activities, enabling officers to verify catch more accurately while tracking the full mass balance of landed fish. Industry users can access key data and record directly into CAS for timely catch accounting. The result is a significant improvement in fisheries transparency, traceability, and accountability across Fiji's offshore sector.

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Engaged under SWIOFish3 funding, Traseable Solutions developed the foundational Fisheries Information Management System (FIMS) for the Seychelles Fisheries Authority (SFA), establishing a centralised platform for managing and disseminating fisheries data across the authority. Phase 1 focused on migrating and structuring SFA's existing data and building an interactive dashboard to visualise key statistics across licensing, catch and effort, quota consumption, and fisher registration — covering sectors from purse seine and industrial longline through to artisanal and sea cucumber fisheries. The platform was configured on SFA's internal network with role-based permissions and stakeholder access, providing both a public-facing view of fisheries data and a shared internal tool for SFA-wide analysis and reporting. The work laid the foundation for the operational modules developed in Phase 2.

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The Register of Fishing Rights (RFR) is a web-based database application developed for the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and the South Pacific Group (SPG) to implement the Zone-Based Management Agreement (ZBMA) for the South Pacific albacore fishery. Functioning as a real-time ledger, the RFR manages Party Annual Catch Allocations (PACA) for SPG member countries — tracking catch usage, monitoring allocation balances, and facilitating transactions such as the trading and pooling of fishing rights between parties. The system integrates with the Pacific Community's (SPC) Catch Estimation and Visualisation Tool (CEVT) for albacore catch data and incorporates vessel-level catch monitoring, ensuring accurate, up-to-date oversight of the fishery and maximising the net economic benefits from its sustainable use.

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Happy Fish is a Sydney-based social enterprise founded by Bondi locals, with a mission to drive ocean regeneration and help consumers and restaurants make sustainable seafood choices. Traseable Solutions developed a blockchain-based digital traceability system that tracks seafood from "bait to plate," capturing key details such as when and where each product was harvested. The system includes a traceability portal that follows fish from catch through to processors, wholesalers, and retailers, alongside a consumer-facing app that makes it easy to identify and source sustainable seafood.

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Traseable Solutions designed and developed a coastal catch data system - comprising a fisher-facing mobile app and an officer-facing monitoring portal - to improve fisheries monitoring, traceability, and data-driven decision-making. Fishers record catch details including weight, species, and landing site via the app, while CI officers monitor and process records through the portal. The system is being piloted across 6 islands in the Lau Group, supporting conservation efforts and sustainable coastal resource management across the region.

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The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) is developing a Centralised Regional Asset Tracking Hub to improve the safety and accountability of fisheries observers operating across the Western and Central Pacific. The initiative responds to critical gaps identified following the Observer Livelihood and Safety Study, which highlighted systemic weaknesses in tracking essential safety equipment such as personal locator beacons, satellite communication devices, and life vests. Traseable Solutions is supporting the design and development of an integrated asset management module within the Regional Information Management Facility (RIMF), linking physical safety gear directly to observer deployments and active fishing trips. The system enables real-time SOS traceability, automated maintenance alerts, and seamless integration with national fisheries systems, while enforcing structured digital custody workflows. By delivering real-time visibility and lifecycle management of safety equipment, the Hub strengthens regional duty of care—ensuring observers monitoring the Pacific’s tuna fisheries are equipped, protected, and supported at all times.

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In partnership with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Sea Quest Fiji Ltd, Traseable Solutions contributed to a pioneering blockchain-based tuna traceability project in the Pacific—the first of its kind in the region. The initiative addressed critical challenges in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and labour transparency by enabling end-to-end digital traceability of tuna from “bait to plate.” Using a combination of RFID and QR tagging, mobile data capture, and blockchain technology, each fish was assigned a unique digital identity, with key data—such as catch location, vessel, and handling—securely recorded and shared across the supply chain. Traseable Solutions played a key technical role in implementing and localising the system for Pacific fisheries, demonstrating how emerging technologies can be adapted to real-world industry constraints. The project successfully validated blockchain as a tool for improving supply chain transparency, strengthening sustainability compliance, and enabling consumers and regulators to verify the origin and integrity of seafood products.

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Engaged under the SAFPROM Project, Traseable Solutions developed a web-based information management system for the Competent Authority/Seafood Safety Verification Unit (CA/SSVU) within Samoa's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries — replacing a fragmented mix of spreadsheets and an outdated Access database that had made the unit's core work slow and difficult to manage. The system streamlines the CA/SSVU's key functions, including export verifications and certifications, fish processing licence management, and audit and inspection reporting. By centralising data that previously stretched back to 1995 across unusable legacy systems, the platform significantly reduces the time officers spend tracing and verifying seafood catch, strengthening the accuracy and transparency of Samoa's catch certification system.

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Building on the foundation established in Phase 1, Traseable Solutions was engaged by the Seychelles Fisheries Authority (SFA) to develop additional operational modules for the FIMS, digitising manual, paper-based processes into consolidated digital workflows. Phase 2 focused on two core modules — Port Management & Facilities, covering sales, dues, port fees, ice plant operations, and vessel movements; and Fisheries Economics, covering company registration, vessel port calls, bunkering, expenditures, trade data, and employment statistics. A Document Tracking System was also added to monitor the status of essential documents such as logbooks, landings, and sampling forms across licensed vessel fleets. The work includes an Android mobile app to support field and port data capture, and migration of all historical data into the FIMS to ensure centralised management across SFA's operations.

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Driven by the IMCS Network and Fiji's Ministry of Fisheries and Forestry, Traseable Solutions developed the Boarding and Inspection Tool (BaIT) — a web portal and offline-capable Android mobile app that replaces paper-based vessel inspection forms with a streamlined digital workflow. Fisheries officers can conduct boarding inspections and capture data aboard vessels without internet connectivity, with records automatically synchronised to the portal once back online. The system integrates with Fiji's Electronic Port State Monitoring System (ePSM) and Catch Accountancy System (CAS) via APIs — receiving vessel risk assessments from ePSM and transmitting inspection results back to both systems to support port authorisation, unloading approvals, and catch accounting. The platform also captures data on labour standards and human rights observations aboard fishing vessels, contributing to broader government efforts to improve crew welfare across the Pacific fishing fleet.

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Building on the BaIT system developed for Fiji, Traseable Solutions was engaged by the IMCS Network to adapt and extend the platform for the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), modernising its at-sea and in-port vessel inspection processes across member nations. The solution digitises CCAMLR's paper inspection forms — previously prone to legibility errors and data entry delays that hindered IUU fishing compliance verification — into an integrated web portal and offline-capable Android mobile app. Inspectors can capture data aboard vessels without connectivity, with records syncing automatically to the portal once online. The app supports French and Spanish translations in line with CCAMLR's multilingual forms, and the system features role-based access for Admin, Secretariat, Member Authority, Inspector, and Vessel Operator users — ensuring data is appropriately visible and restricted across CCAMLR's international membership.

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Engaged by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Offshore Fisheries Program, Traseable Solutions developed a prototype blockchain-based traceability system to explore the use of distributed ledger technology in the Pacific longline tuna fishery. The system comprised an offline-capable mobile app for field data capture and a React.js-built blockchain explorer for viewing records, built on the Ethereum platform. Designed to track individual fish from catch through to processed product, the system captured key data elements across the full supply chain — including vessel catch data, port landings, port sampling, and factory processing — creating an immutable record that could be used to verify catch integrity, identify misreporting, and support sustainable catch certification for small island developing states. The project demonstrated a viable pathway for integrating blockchain technology with SPC's existing fisheries applications such as TUFMAN2 to strengthen transparency and combat IUU fishing across the Pacific.

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