Fisheries Logbook & Analytic System

Abstract

Fisheries industry is one of the main income resources of Sri Lanka which affords a considerable portion of food needs of the country. As well as the fisheries data is a very important resource which should be maintained and used in order to improve the fisheries industry through accurate decisions. Daily catch data is collected from multiday boats of Sri Lanka regularly. The Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DFAR) collect this data and generate reports in a manual process. Different users are involved in the process for data entering and report generation. The efficiency and effectiveness of the process are at a low level due to the manual methods. Due to the lack of an analytic system, the DFAR couldn’t get the complete advantage of the collected data. Currently, the data is not analysed or used for decision making in an effective way. Through this project, a web-based system (Fisheries Logbook & Analytic System) is proposed and developed with the aim of making the storing, processing, and analyzing of daily catch data of multiday boats more efficient and effective. Fish catch data can be stored and retrieved for supporting the decision-making process through an accurate analytic system. Accordingly, the system used the web-based architecture to facilitate different user levels to access the system concurrently. It is concluded that the developed system can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the process and it can support the decision-making process in an accurate way.