The fishing industry has been flying blind on bycatch for decades. That ends now.
TrawlNet connects directly to onboard vessel monitoring systems and logs every species hauled — not just the ones you want — so fleet managers see live quota exhaustion rates across the entire operation before anyone with a badge shows up. Quota overage warnings fire automatically against fleet-wide aggregates, not individual vessel totals, because that's how licenses actually get pulled. I built this because someone I know lost their halibut license over something a spreadsheet could have prevented.
- Real-time bycatch ingestion from VMS hardware with sub-90-second latency across active vessels
- Fleet-wide quota burn-rate dashboard tracking up to 47 simultaneous species allocations
- Automatic overage alerts triggered against aggregate catch thresholds, not just per-vessel limits
- Deep integration with NOAA quota management feeds and regional fishery observer data streams
- Trip-level audit logs that hold up under federal inspection. Built to survive discovery.
Faria Electronics VMS, CatchScope, Vesseltracker, MarineTraffic, NOAA FishWatch API, EM Systems Observer Platform, FleetIO, HarborSync, Garmin ActiveCaptain, TideBase, Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Data Portal, OceanBridge EDI
TrawlNet is decomposed into purpose-built microservices: a VMS ingestion layer, a species-classification enrichment pipeline, a quota accounting engine, and an alerting fanout bus. All catch events are persisted to MongoDB for its flexible document model across the highly variable species metadata schemas we deal with. The real-time aggregation layer runs on Redis, where fleet-aggregate quota state lives permanently and is rebuilt from the event log on cold start. The frontend dashboard is a straight React app that subscribes to a WebSocket feed from the alerting bus — no polling, no stale numbers.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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