Advanced wireless sensor capturing water temperature and depth at the precise location of fishing gear, supporting accurate fishing-effort analysis.
NetSenz is a wireless sensor mounted directly on the fishing gear, allowing an FMC to track and monitor fishing activities with this particular gear.
NetSenz sensor transmits precise data back to the FMC, granting them a detailed overview of fishing effort related to the tagged gear.
Moreover, NetSenz has a unique feature not only to detect exact positions and time of start and end of the fishing session but also to record the exact time-depth profile that the gear passed. Depth profile can be accurate to a meter and logged in a minute or even shorter intervals. The data are collected wirelessly with a Wireless Gate (BlueSenz WG) and transferred to FMC by BlueTraker terminal.
NetSenz is suitable to monitor pelagic and benthic fishing activities and can be attached to various fishing gear:
USING A FASTENING PLATE: on the fishing net, on the headline / headrope / floatline / footrope / leadline of the fishing net, on the longline, and even on the trap/pot.
USING PRE-WELDED SCREWS and PROTECTION PLATE: on the trawl door / otter board.
Each type of installation is secured using stainless steel security screws to assure the integrity of the sensor on the fishing gear.
- NetSenz collects complete and precise fishing activity data from fishing-net deployment to fishing-net haulage. These include:
- Fishing Gear ID
- Total gear immersion time
- Latitudes and longitudes of a gear-down, gear-up, and all subsurface travel positions
- Sea water temperature log
- Immersion depth log
- Measurements’ derived analytics, i.e., maximum depth reached latitude-longitude at UTC time, etc.
