The Data Dashboard

Kai’s Data Monitoring Project

We want to make life easier for fishers and fish alike!

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The need

Fisheries management is incredibly complex. Policies and regional regulations tend to be more reactive to changes rather than proactively identifying and addressing challenges.

Fishers lack contact to fishery management plans while regulators miss out on fishers invaluable on-the-ground insights. This fragmented data landscape hinders sustainable practices and collaborative management.

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Our plan

We're developing a data dashboard to enable more proactive management of fisheries through more effective data exchange between all stakeholders to allow for a more even-handed exchange of data and information.

We're sure you've hear this all before - so how are we different? Our grassroots approach means the users participate in designing their own tool. This helps ensure adoption and usability. Stakeholder engagement isn't a tick box exercise for us, it's how we begin everything we do.

'The nitty gritty'

Enabling real-time management of fisheries. This is to the benefit of fishers, regulatory bodies, and the Ocean.

For Fishers

Portalised, easily accessible and real-time data to help you. Whether it’s synthesised policy updates on your target species, context behind management decisions, habitat mapping or your CPUE, we want your information to work for you, not against you.
For Regulatory Bodies

Local knowledge from fishers regularly provided presents opportunities to fill data gaps. This has the potential for proactive stock management, preventing fish and fishers from on the back foot (or fin) after new regulations are implemented, further opening a trusted bi-directional communication and information pathway.
For The Ocean

Vulnerable stocks won’t have to wait until breaking point for attention, faster turn around with stakeholder by-in will ensure their sustained protection further than a legal sentiment. Potential for bycatch reduction, benefitting biodiversity and fish stocks as a whole.

Our Approach

Kai’s Data Monitoring Project

There is already a huge amount of incredible Ocean data available, and there are many different data tools and solutions already in existence.

But in many cases, these tools aren’t easy to access or use and they don’t offer practical information and insights that would assist local communities of fishers, requiring a background in data management for use.

This forms the foundation of what Kai is all about; being a boundary spanner. Bridging communication and collaboration gaps between policy makers, regulatory and monitoring bodies and fishers. Through our film Fighting for the Underdog and continued interviews with fishermen, NGOs, policy experts and scientists we are developing a strong base to use for our user journey to ensure our research and dashboard are fit for purpose.
The pilot of the data dashboard project will address the needs of inshore fishers working closely with a self-contained community. This should enable the benefits to be clear and easily understood by the users. A more limited approach from a stakeholder and geographical standing will ensure that the data volume is manageable in this first phase. The tool can be scaled once the foundational elements havebeen established.
Our primary research focus while the dashboard is in the development phase takes an interdisciplinary focus. Using certain target species as a case study, we’ll be looking at information pathways and the role they play in compliance with a view to making recommendations for their improvement from the fisher perspective. For us, it is key to bring fisher voice and perspective into the conversation of compliance in the scientific space.