IMOS - Ships of Opportunity - Fishing Vessels as Ships of Opportunity Sub-Facility - Real-time data

Fishing Vessels as Ships of Opportunity (FishSOOP) is an IMOS Sub-Facility working with fishers to collect real-time temperature and depth data by installing equipment on a network of commercial fishing vessels using a range of common fishing gear.Every day, fishing vessels operate broadly across the productive areas of Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone where we have few subsurface ocean measurements. The Sub-Facility is utilising this observing opportunity to cost-effectively increase the spatial and temporal resolution of subsurface temperature data in Australia’s inshore, shelf, upper-slope, and offshore waters. The data is currently returned to each fishing boat in near-real time, so skippers can relate their catches to temperature-at-depth information. The same data will also be collated to provide oceanographers with quality-controlled data for ground-truthing coastal models and to improve analysis and forecasts of oceanic conditions.The IMOS funded data collection follows on from a Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) funded pilot project (2022-007) with the University of New South Wales, Fishwell Consulting and IMOS. In the first year of the project 32 commercial fishing vessels had been equipped with sensors. They covered a range of fishing vessels, including scallop dredges, tuna longlines, shark gillnets, otter board trawlers, lobster pots, fish traps, prawn trawlers, squid jigs, and danish seines. We also had a pre-trial test with one boat the year prior, with the sensor installed on a trawler.

机遇渔船计划（Fishing Vessels as Ships of Opportunity, FishSOOP）是澳大利亚综合海洋观测系统（Integrated Marine Observing System, IMOS）下属的子设施，其通过在配备多种常见渔具的商业渔船网络上安装观测设备，与渔民合作采集实时温度与深度数据。
每日，渔船的作业范围广泛覆盖澳大利亚专属经济区内的高生产力海域，而该区域的水下海洋观测数据极为匮乏。该子设施正依托这一观测契机，以经济高效的方式提升澳大利亚近岸、陆架、上陆坡及远海水域水下温度数据的空间与时间分辨率。
目前，这些数据会以近实时的方式回传给每艘渔船，以便船长能够将渔获情况与不同深度的水温信息开展关联分析。同时，整合后的数据集还将为海洋学家提供经过质量控制的观测数据，用于验证海岸海洋模型，并优化海洋状况的分析与预报工作。
该由IMOS资助的数据采集项目，源自一项由澳大利亚渔业研究与发展公司（Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, FRDC）资助的试点项目（编号2022-007），合作方包括新南威尔士大学、Fishwell咨询公司及IMOS。在项目首个年度，已有32艘商业渔船完成了传感器加装工作，涵盖扇贝拖网船、金枪鱼延绳钓船、鲨鱼刺网船、板拖网渔船、龙虾笼作业船、鱼类诱捕笼作业船、对虾拖网船、鱿鱼诱钓船及丹麦围网船等多种作业类型。在此项目启动前一年，团队还曾在一艘拖网渔船上开展过预试验测试。