BATmap

  • Situation Vacant: Research Assistant | BATmap

    Situation Vacant: Research Assistant | BATmap

    6th July 2023

    Since 2019 Scottish skippers have designed and used a web-based app, called BATmap (see https://info.batmap.co.uk/ ), to avoid bycatch. The UK Seafood Innovation Fund has funded a two-year project to reconfigure BATmap for the west of Scotland prawn fleet and…

  • Plans explored to extend BATmap use in Scottish fisheries

    Plans explored to extend BATmap use in Scottish fisheries

    21st April 2023

    An industry workshop in Peterhead explored plans to extend the use of the BATmap bycatch avoidance tool in Scottish fisheries By Tara Marshall, senior lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen Once participating skippers had…

  • New west coast by-catch reduction app available

    New west coast by-catch reduction app available

    24th July 2020

    The latest version of an app co-designed by Scottish skippers to assist them in avoiding high catches of unwanted choke species is now available online. BATmap, or By-catch Avoidance Tool Using Mapping, allows a skipper to securely share their real-time…

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