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As the world's largest ecosystem, oceans play a crucial role in climate regulation, biodiversity, and sustaining humanity. With Aquatic food systems providing essential nutrition to over 3.2 billion people and supporting livelihoods. However, natural processes and human pressures threaten the stability and resilience of marine ecosystems.
Despite marine and fisheries conservation efforts, decades of irresponsible exploitation have led to an alarming level of degradation. Meanwhile climate change is altering the distribution and abundance of fish and other marine species. An estimated 25-85% of marine species have already shifted part of their geographical range, moving at an average rate of approximately 70 km per decade. These shifts affect fisheries management and the global seafood supply chain.
Today’s existing tools are more effective at collecting data in the open ocean, but shelf and nearshore waters where most fishing occurs, often lack reliable sub-surface data crucial for accurate oceanographic and productivity modeling.
Lack of in situ ocean data limits forecasting, modeling, and monitoring, leading to inaccurate predictions and poor decision-making. On the other hand, collecting local and regional data using traditional research vessels is a complex, costly, and time-consuming process.
That's why we’re developing Fishtwin through a multi-stakeholder collaboration: a precision fisheries platform that leverages digital twin analytics to improve the efficiency and sustainability of commercial fishing operations.
By providing detailed, dynamic digital representations of marine resources, habitats, and human activities, we aim to provide both free and commercial access for exploring, discovering, and visualizing past, present, and future ocean conditions in ways that are meaningful to a wide range of stakeholders.
Fishtwin supports UN SDG 12 by enhancing decision-making and building capacity for sustainable fisheries management.
We aim to support climate mitigation and resilience, promote a sustainable blue economy, and conserve biodiversity.
Biodiversity Conservation: Fishtwin will provide digital mapping and monitoring to identify habitats, track species, and detect threats.
The project will create a dynamic digital ocean and ecosystems management map exploring, discovering, and visualizing ocean conditions.
Its our ambition to establishment multi-stakeholder collaboration to accelerate the co-creation of knowledge and innovative solutions
Fishtwin will simulate the impacts of fishing, aquaculture, and ports, helping develop strategies that balance economic benefits and conservation.
Global fisheries and aquaculture production have steadily increased in recent years, making aquatic foods among the most widely traded products worldwide. But challenges to scaling production persist. Fishtwin seeks to transform how aquatic foods are harvested, processed, traded, and consumed.
Without proactive mitigation, the impacts of climate change on the ocean could reach $428 billion annually by 2050, driven by losses in blue economy activities including fisheries, ocean carbon absorption, and damages from sea level rise and storms (IPCC, 2022b).
Fishtwin aims to enhance decision-making and support sustainable management of aquatic food systems, leading to better production, nutrition, and a healthy ecosystem.
Additionally, the platform will improve fisheries resilience through effective management practices by optimizing catch, advancing fisheries science, reducing bycatch, enforcement of regulations, market transparency, energy efficiency, monitoring ecosystems, and mitigating environmental impacts.
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