Software for the fishing industry

The fishing sector lives a documented contradiction, and it is the entry point of every conversation.

• Exports are at their second-best historic level, and shrimp recovered its price. The problem is not the sale.
• Profitability, on the other hand, collapsed. A hake trawler went from positive to negative margins: the cause is cost (fuel, spare parts, logistics, labor) and above all working capital.
• The State has already digitized its side of the counter: electronic fishing report, traceability module, electronic dispatch, satellite monitoring. The company reports to several systems that do not talk to each other.
• Inside the company, data is paper and Excel. An official survey of dozens of Chubut plants found no production management software in any of them. The trip, the haul, yield per batch and crew payout are all done by hand.

• Margin is decided blind. Costs are debated precisely (stevedoring, fuel, labor) but decisions are made on aggregated, late information. Nobody knows the real cost per kilo per trip until the accountant closes.
• The export file is built by hand. The European Union catch certificate (CATCH, mandatory since January 2026) requires data split across satellite monitoring, the fishing report and the plant batch. Joining it by hand, per shipment, is hours and rejection risk.
• The crew payout is a minefield. The crew earns a percentage of production, with a complex calculation per role and per trip, regulated by collective agreement. It is at the center of the sector's most expensive labor conflict and it is solved in spreadsheets.
• The cold chain is not monitored, it is checked by hand. A temperature drift not caught in time compromises the goods, and the export audit asks for the logged evidence.
• Size grade sets the price and is graded by eye. Shrimp is paid by size grade (L1 to L4), and manual grading is variable and hard to measure batch by batch.

With the sector's cash under pressure, we do not sell an 18-month ERP. We build scoped, fixed-price modules that pay for themselves with what they put in order:

• Automatic CATCH file. Consolidates satellite monitoring, fishing report and plant batch, and builds the catch certificate per shipment with no manual reconstruction. A market obligation with a passed deadline: the ideal first project.
• Cost and yield per trip, haul and batch. The dashboard that gives the owner the real cost per kilo and margin per operation. It is a business conversation, not a systems one.
• Auditable crew payout. Calculation per role, production and trip, with payouts both sides of the table can verify. The hardest product to copy and the one that ties the client most.
• MSC audit file and chain of custody. For companies in a certification cycle: batch segregation and auditable records, no spreadsheets.
• Cold chain monitoring. The cheapest entry project with the most visible ROI: sensors in rooms and tunnels, phone alerts and a logged curve for the audit.

Your operation defines the order: start with the module that concentrates the most cash or the most risk.

Every physical pain in the fishing chain (scattered data, the size grade, the cold, the cost, the port window) is also a data problem. These five solutions bring the technology layer the sector still lacks down to mid-size company scale, and each one is implemented as a scoped module, plant installation included: cameras, sensors and cabling are set up by our technical crew.