Knowledge measures

Aerial monitoring could be a valuable alternative/ additional to monitoring by ships

Research and Innovation Research and Innovation

Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

North

Relevant stage:

Monitoring and quantification

Related Barriers:

  • Cameras are still not adapted to the weather/stormy conditions.

  • There is a lack of procedures for effective monitoring of the aquaculture farms.

Related Good Practice:

M&Q GP 1.1

Aerial monitoring additional to monitoring by ships

Aerial monitoring could be a valuable alternative/ additional to monitoring by ships. From the air, certain aspects are easier to monitor than from a ship.  For example, the detection of cables coming loose, the observation of an exceptional fast growth rate of cultivated organisms. In the Netherlands, this system has already resulted in the detection of a large biomass of mussel growth, which has been communicated to the mussel farmer who anticipated by harvesting earlier than originally planned.