ECERS the e-Logbook - when you
need to comply
ECERS is an Electronic Catch and Effort Reporting System used
by the vessel's skipper to comply with regulatory requirements
and assist owners and skippers to plan fishing operations.
Catch data is entered on easy to use forms that perform the function
of a logbook, with the ability to generate graphical plots and
catch and effort reports in either electronic or paper form.
Different data entry forms are available for different operations
and reports (even stores inventory). The appearance of the forms
and reports is consistent: for example the data form used by the
vessel's skipper is the same as the report form used to represent
the data on the land-based computers, irrespective of the type
of data.
ECERS contains software for the vessel, the fleet owner and fishing
authority, all connected via an email network. This allows a report
submitted by a skipper to the fishing authority to be simultaneously
copied and collated to a fleet owner, the skipper's home and/or
his office.
The SatLink Email system is recommended to submit catch and effort
reports via Inmarsat-C.
ECERS COMBO
A complete monitoring package for the professional fishing vessel
owner combines the features of three products to give you comprehensive
information of your vessel's performance in an easy to use package.
The components of the system are:
ECERS Server - the same Electronic
Catch and Effort Reporting System that provides position and catch
information to Fisheries Authorities can also be installed on
your computer. In addition to storing and analysing catch data,
you can also use the system to send electronic reports to the
Fisheries Authority from your home or office. The catch data is
automatically processed and stored in a database from e-mailed
reports, which can be consolidated for your entire fleet. The
stored data can also be used by other reporting systems.
i-pinpoint
- allows you to track your vessel(s) in real-time across the
Internet from any computer. The information for your vessel(s)
is sent over the Internet in an encrypted form and is accessed
via an authorised username and password.
OceanVision
- displays position, track and ECERS data on high-resolution electronic
charts available from hydrographic offices. In addition to providing
a graphical display with your tracks and catch, all of the features
of OceanVision are available to allow you to monitor or plan voyages
from your home or office.
System requirements: PC
with 200 MHz Pentium processor or higher (recommended), 64Mb RAM
(recommended), 200Mb free hard drive space, 56 kb/s modem, Java
enabled Internet browser (eg MS Internet Explorer), Internet connection.
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Fish Catch and Electronic Logbook in one
easy to use system
ECERS
Electronic Catch & Effort Reporting
- Record your e-Logbook data with easy
to use Departure, Fish Catch and Landing forms
- View Departure, Catch, Landing and
Transhipment historical data
- Send Fish Catch reports and Logbook
to the Fisheries Authority and to your Home or Office
Description
The ECERS system is based on Microsoft Windows technology and
submits its data reports via e-mail. An OLEDB database is maintained
on board the vessel which can be accessed externally using Microsoft
Access, whilst on the land side the system uses Oracle, Ingres
or Access databases to collate the incoming information.
The e-logbook can use as many data entry/management forms as
supplied with the application and can be a mixture of fisheries,
VMS requirements, boarding information, special notifications,
non fishing and B2B.
How It Works
The software is an end to end solution, supporting the vessel
client end and also the fishing administrator server end. An
ECERS server is also available for fishing companies so that
they can be copied ("CC" in email) with the same data sent to
the fishing administrator's server. The server software includes
the ability to onforward the catch report to other organisations
or research groups if necessary.
The distribution of ECERS data is according to business rules,
which can be set up in much the same way that VMS data is onsent
to remote systems. The server software which automatically processes
incoming email and stores the data in the database also verifies
reported lat / long positions against the TerraVision VMS positions.
The server also has automated archiving and backup facilities.
The use of Microsoft Outlook to provide the email platform
is advantageous in that it supports Public Key Encryption and
thus allows catch reports to be submitted encrypted and with
a digital ID signature.
Also the Fisheries Administration server is configured to acknowledge
each report sent by the client. The acknowledgement is stored
in the vessel's ECERS database tables against each report.
Functionality
Fisheries forms can be designed by us to suit any fishery.
The information is stored in the mode required by the form,
whether it be by shot, daily or trip reports and can be retrieved
by clicking on the appropriate day of the calendar contained
on the ECERS interface. Different shots can be filled in separate
forms under the same day and a totals table is automatically
produced.
Version control of ECERS forms are managed by each form maintaining
its own database table structure, and thus when a new version
of a form is loaded, a table structure is created to suit that
version. This enables old data to be viewed with forms supporting
the old table structures, whilst newer forms are used for reporting.
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