Solutions:

Fishing and marine organisations work with us to improve their productivity, efficiency and sustainability efforts with digital solutions that integrate seamlessly into their operations.
For more than 20 years, we’ve supported Australian jurisdictional fisheries organisations and agencies in North America with industry leading information solutions.
Fisheries management solutions include end-to-end fisheries administration systems used by authorities to manage licences, allocate quotas for harvesting, and streamline compliance and catch and effort reporting.
Fishing and marine organisations work with us to improve their productivity, efficiency and sustainability efforts with digital solutions that integrate seamlessly into their operations.
For more than 20 years, we’ve supported Australian jurisdictional fisheries organisations and agencies in North America with industry leading information solutions.
Solutions include end-to-end fisheries administration systems used by authorities to manage licences, allocate quotas for harvesting, and streamline compliance and catch and effort reporting.
Often, fisher planning is varied from fisher to fisher but there is no single point that fishers can access the information.
With different process, systems and workflows across multiple stakeholders, streamlined applications and processes can make timely, accurate information accessible to the many critical stakeholders that rely on it.
Commercial fishers use our online self-service tools in order to access their licensing information and perform transactions with government.
On the water, simplified reporting of catch and effort is realised via the use of mobile phones. As a result, log books are no longer required. For example, citizen science apps such as Frog Census, Algae Scum Identification and Whale Report allow people to report sightings. Clients include Fisheries Victoria, Fisheries NSW, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (formerly WA Fisheries), and the Vancouver Aquarium.
✓ Commercial fishing administration systems including licence and quota management
✓ Fisher applications (mobile) for compliance activity and catch & effort reporting
✓ Catch and effort reporting for fisheries management
✓ Citizen science apps for aquatic pests, tagged fish and whale sightings
✓ Application hosting and support
Victoria’s commercial fishers and aquaculture businesses work hard to supply domestic and international markets with an extensive variety of the world’s finest fisheries products including abalone, rock lobster, King George whiting and snapper.
The Victorian Fisheries Authority works to ensure Victoria’s fisheries and aquaculture businesses are viable, profitable and sustainable for future generations. Accordingly, to support this mission, the organisation required a solution to replace existing manual processes and streamline the reporting process. In particular, the solution needed to introduce electronic log books, reporting and data capture for selected commercial fisheries.
“Yesterday I received a call from a sea urchin diver who is the first fisher to use the app in production. He phoned me just to say how pleased he was with his first experience. To quote the diver, he said “The app worked like a dream”. He said it is very easy and quick to use and he is excited to use it again.”
Candice Harwood, Senior Licensing Officer, Victorian Fisheries Authority
Spatial Vision’s Lapis team developed a comprehensive electronic reporting system known as ‘eCatch’ that is available to fishers as a smartphone and tablet app. The system provides an end-to-end service for catch reporting, including the creation and distribution of Catch Disposal Records.
The resulting app has transformed commercial fisheries catch and effort reporting. By comparison, instead of a monthly paper-based data collection process, now a fully automated, modern mobile application delivers information immediately. Moreover, this system provides end to-end reporting with offline capability, streamlining the recording of catch and effort and commercial fish landed and improving compliance reporting.
Fisheries and Marine Specialist
With over 20 years of experience in the fisheries domain, John specialises in designing and developing and re-engineering business information systems and processes to generate workplace efficiencies and meet changing business requirements.
In his role, John has led the delivery of information solutions across multiple Australian jurisdictional fisheries and marine agencies in North America.
Fisheries and Marine Specialist
With over 20 years of experience in the fisheries domain, John specialises in designing and developing and re-engineering business information systems and processes to generate workplace efficiencies and meet changing business requirements.
In his role, John has led the delivery of information solutions across multiple Australian jurisdictional fisheries and marine agencies in North America.
Imran is passionate about delivering maximum business value to clients. For over 15 years, he has led the delivery of large-scale, high performing enterprise IT solutions with a focus on custom applications for the fisheries and natural resource sectors.
Imran specialises in developing seamless digital ecosystems combining process improvement, apps and custom software to help organisations achieve their strategic objectives.
Imran is passionate about delivering maximum business value to clients. For over 15 years, he has led the delivery of large-scale, high performing enterprise IT solutions with a focus on custom applications for the fisheries and natural resource sectors.
Imran specialises in developing seamless digital ecosystems combining process improvement, apps and custom software to help organisations achieve their strategic objectives.