Aquaculture & Fisheries
Aquaculture: For Advisers & Agents
What Aquaculture changes for agronomists, agents, vets and consultants.
Advisers need scoped access, defensible records and a way to work across a client base without re-keying. Aquaculture operates under a distinct licensing, health and environmental regime and depends absolutely on continuous water quality management. This module covers site and consent management, stock and biomass tracking, feed and growth performance, health and treatment records, and the environmental monitoring that consents require.
In their words
What the job actually looks like
These are not marketing personas. Each one is a distinct job with a distinct constraint, and the module is designed so that solving one does not create work for the others.
Environment regulator
Consent compliance
Needs monitoring returns submitted accurately and on time.
- Register sites and consent conditions
- Stock and record biomass
- Feed and monitor growth
- Monitor water quality continuously
Fish health veterinarian
Health planning
Needs mortality and treatment history by pen.
- Stock and record biomass
- Feed and monitor growth
- Monitor water quality continuously
- Manage health and treatments
Shellfish producer
Oysters and mussels
Needs classification and biotoxin status before every harvest.
- Feed and monitor growth
- Monitor water quality continuously
- Manage health and treatments
- Check classification and testing before harvest
End to end
How Aquaculture runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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Register sites and consent conditions
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Stock and record biomass
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Feed and monitor growth
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Monitor water quality continuously
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Manage health and treatments
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Check classification and testing before harvest
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Harvest with full traceability
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Submit environmental monitoring returns
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Capabilities
What Aquaculture does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Site and consent register with conditions and monitoring obligations
- Stock and biomass tracking by pen, tank or bed
- Feed delivery, conversion and waste monitoring
Operate and monitor
- Growth performance against the expected curve
- Water quality monitoring — dissolved oxygen, temperature, salinity and turbidity
- Mortality recording with cause and disposal route
Comply and evidence
- Fish health planning, treatment and withdrawal periods
- Sea lice and parasite monitoring where applicable
- Shellfish harvesting area classification status tracking
Analyse and improve
- Biotoxin and microbiological testing results with harvest gating
- Environmental monitoring and benthic survey record
- Traceability from site to first sale with health certification
Traceability
The chain behind one batch
Livestock traceability is statutory, the reporting window is short, and it runs through a different national system in each nation. The record is assembled as the animal moves rather than reconstructed at audit.
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Born on holding
- Who
- Holding of birth
- Evidence
- Ear tag applied and registered
- Held in
- British Cattle Movement Service
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Health intervention
- Who
- Veterinary practice
- Evidence
- Medicine record with withdrawal period
- Held in
- Medicine book
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Moved
- Who
- Haulier
- Evidence
- Statutory movement report within the reporting window
- Held in
- British Cattle Movement Service
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Received
- Who
- Destination holding
- Evidence
- Arrival recorded, standstill applied
- Held in
- Holding register
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Slaughtered
- Who
- Approved abattoir
- Evidence
- Kill sheet, classification and food chain information
- Held in
- FSA
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Sold
- Who
- Buyer
- Evidence
- Batch linked to the carcase and the holding of origin
- Held in
- Platform record
Take the record with you
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Aquaculture
The problem: Needs biomass against consent and water quality visible continuously.
What they do
- Register sites and consent conditions
- Stock and record biomass
- Feed and monitor growth
- Monitor water quality continuously
What changes
- Biomass against consent
- Feed conversion ratio
- Mortality rate
This is an illustrative worked example built from the module design, not a customer reference. Named case studies are published only with the business's written consent.
What we are hearing
The problems people describe to us
These are composite statements drawn from user research conversations, not attributed customer quotes. We publish named references only with written consent.
I am not short of software. I am short of one place where the same field means the same thing in all of it.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Biomass against consent
- 02Feed conversion ratio
- 03Mortality rate
- 04Water quality compliance
- 05Harvest volume in classification
Free assessment
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