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We are going to test the equipment developed within the project,
BEOS and Red Box, on a series of tides in real working conditions.
I'm José Carlos Fernández, I'm a scientific observer on board of commercial vessels.
It's about estimating the amount of the catches,
mainly in trawling,
and how much of that are species that will be directly put to sale,
and how much are non commercial species.
It's about handling the BEOS system, it will be a biomass estimation system,
the camera scans the species captured in each cast,
and the information is sent to land in real time.
It's received in CESGA, where that data is used to model the captures,
to reduce the discards, it's added to the geosite
where the shipowners and the companies interested
may check what discards they have, and add value to them.
I'm Manuel, the owner of this ship.
The tides last one or two days at most,
we catch all kind of species, depending on the equipment we use.
If it's with gill nets we fish mackerels, blue whiting,
and some groundfish such as monkfish, megrim, sea bream,
and other species, sole or even crayfish
The trawl is a piece of rig that that drags the bottom,
it has these iron doors that make it open,
with floaters to make it higher,
and it's hooked with two wires to the stern of the ship.
Everything ends up here in the stern, and it goes out on a belt,
then the sailors classify it by size and species,
they put in boxes with ice,
and it's kept in the hold, to be sold in the market.
We'll go on optimizing the BEOS and Red Box systems,
we'll try them on a second fishing vessel,
a portuguese ship that cooperates with the project,
and finally we'll try it on oceanographic vessels,
we'll go on optimizing the system to improve
the management of discards in real time in the vessels.