Turn fishing insights into science.

Securely store and share your proprietary fishing data to support trusted research projects.

How it works

No one knows the ocean like fishermen

We built the Trust to help the fishing industry and researchers collaborate on research that helps regulators make better decisions about our changing oceans and the coastal economies they power.

Collect

Streamlined processes to aggregate data from government and proprietary sources.

Store

Standardized data models make it easy to combine across any fleet or fishery.

Collaborate

Governance to ensure fishery data is interpreted and used correctly.

For the fishing industry

Arm your observations

The Trust provides a secure way for fishermen to crowdsource the data they need to make arguments regulators cannot ignore.

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Reclaim your data

Work with the Trust to collect your federal and state reporting data (e.g. VMS) or share data from your internal systems (e.g. plotters) so your prepared for the next challenge.

Speak as a fleet

The Trust standardizes your data so you can quickly respond to fishery closures and other management decisions but stores it independently so you control when its used.

Never lose control

Every researchers that works with the Trust agrees to a set of governance rules, which include the right for fishermen to remove their data from a project at any point. No questions asked.

For Researchers

The fastest way to access fishery dependent data

The Trust works directly with fishermen so researchers can access the most recent and granular data directly from their vessels.

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Industry collaboration at scale

Stop wrangling data for each project. The Trust aggregates the data once and then makes it available across multiple researchers.

Access “science-ready” data

The Trust cleans and standardizes industry data so it’s simple and efficient to use.

VMS, landings and beyond

The Trust works directly with fishermen so researchers can access federal reporting and proprietary data in its most granular form.

Case Study

Offshore Wind in New York Bite

Fisheries in New York and New Jersey worked with the Trust to use their own data to evaluate conflicts with offshore wind.

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Active Project

Crowdsourcing Data from Maine’s Lobster Fishery

Working with University of Maine and Maine Lobsterman association to help the industry aggregate plotter data from across the fleet.

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Active Project

New Hampshire’s Lobster Fleet

Working with UNH, SeaGrant and the New Hampshire Lobster fleet to crowdsource plotter data from across the state.

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Start turning fishing insights into science today

Set up time to talk with our team to learn how the Trust is helping fisheries across the U.S. collaborate with researchers to address questions only fishermen (and their data) can help answer.

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