How to Digitalize the Canadian and US seafood industry

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In the dynamic landscape of the Canadian and US seafood industry, staying ahead requires strategic tools tailored to your unique challenges.

Maritech has more than 40 years of experience in the seafood industry, and have been supporting more than 300 seafood companies with their digital transformation. Our seafood ERP software is designed to empower your business in all your seafood operations, whether its seafood distribution, processing, wholesales, logistics – you name it, we know it.

The backbone of efficient seafood management

In the ever moving world of seafood, streamlined operations is the key to success. Our seafood ERP solution, Maritech Cloud, offer a comprehensive suite of tools, providing real-time insights into your business processes. From production and inventory management to traceability and compliance, our seafood ERP software is your ally in achieving operational excellence.

Seafood distribution

In an era where resources are limited, efficient seafood distribution has become increasingly crucial. Our specialized seafood distribution software is tailored to meet the specific demands of North America’s seafood supply chain. With features such as order management, route optimization, and real-time tracking, our software ensures that your products reach their destination fresh and on time.

Seafood processing

Experience a paradigm shift in seafood processing with Maritech Cloud. Our seafood processing software is designed to enhance every stage of the processing journey, from quality control and yield optimization to compliance and reporting. Elevate your processing capabilities and deliver top-notch products to your customers.

Comprehensive seafood software solutions

Maritech goes beyond conventional ERP solutions. Our seafood ERP is an all-encompassing suite, covering the intricacies of the seafood industry. Whether you’re a small-scale distributor or a large processing plant, our scalable seafood software adapts to your needs, fostering growth and efficiency. Whether you need the full solution or just parts of it, we got you – and whenever you are ready to expand or get more modules, you can. Maritech is the only one-stop cloud software for all your needs in the seafood industry.

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Seafood Traceability 2.0

Navigating the Seafood Traceability Landscape

Meeting modern demands with advanced solutions

In today’s market, seafood traceability goes beyond meeting basic legal requirements.

Consumers want to know that the seafood they choose is of top quality and has been responsibly produced. For you, heightened seafood traceability awareness means that more data must be collected and verified, including an ever expanding and more transparent set of checks.

Meeting and exceeding the seafood traceability challenge

Seafood products are subject to extensive regulatory programs – the Seafood Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), the National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP), the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP), FDA tracking regulations, and more. Sorting out how all these rules align and how they can be incorporated into your existing seafood software can be confusing. Especially for small producers or traders, the burden can seem onerous and expensive.

As consumers become ever more environmentally conscious, it is clear that just meeting the minimum legal standards for fish traceability will not be enough for seafood companies to be successful in the coming years. You must be able to measure and report on how you are meeting not just the legal mandates, but also sustainability standards, set both now and as goals for the future.

Future proofing seafood traceability

This means that companies must have a seafood traceability system that tracks more than just basic one up one down lot traceability, but also keeps track of hard-earned certifications (such as MSC and Global G.A.P) that follow along with the fish records and provide assurance that the fish meets the most rigorous standards of being responsibly and ethically raised or caught.

Even more stringent measures, such as the newly implemented MSC Labour Eligibility Requirements (May, 2023) that will audit against illegal and forced labour, are also becoming part of the mandatory traceability landscape. Over the next decade, it will be common for seafood traceability to include verification of tracking data acquired by satellites, used to monitor the location and movement of commercial fishing vessels to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU fishing). For small producers, keeping abreast of the newest traceability requirements and providing the necessary verification can be an ever-steeper challenge.

Maritech Quality Tracking - digital checklists linked to keys in your business system

Traceability that is trustworthy

In Maritech, traceability has been in our backbone since the 70’s, and is at the core of our position as the global leader in seafood tech. For decades, we have been in the forefront developing cost-effective tools to manage digital seafood traceability and supply-chain collaboration for seafood companies around the world.

Landing Note information, which records the verified catch area, fishing trip dates, origin lots, and more has been an integral part of Maritech seafood software systems from the very beginning. Our uniqueness is that we cover the seafood-related processes through all of the value chain, from sea to table – with full traceability, documentation, and control. From landing or aquaculture, through production, processing, packing/labelling, sales, claims, and logistics.

Tools for tracking of MSC, Global Gap, and other major certifications are built into our seafood solutions. This means that even very small producers can comply easily and affordably with an implementation that takes weeks, and not months and years.

By creating simple and powerful cloud solutions that manage all of this information easily, integrated with your normal business transactions, we will, together, steadily and surely remove the barriers to a safer and more transparent seafood supply chain.

And by investing in advanced seafood traceability software and maintaining rigorous standards, your seafood company will not only meet current demands but also position yourself for long-term success in a competitive and conscientious market.

The First Eye at Sea

Útgerðarfélag Reykjavíkur is the first company that have started using Maritech Eye™ onboard fishing vessels.

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In December, Icelandic Útgerðarfélag Reykjavíkur installed the first of their two Maritech Eye units.

Their purpose is to automate the recognition and documentation of species in combination with size and other parameters related to various characteristics of whitefish catch.

The information will also be sent to the fisheries authorities in Iceland, who will use the data for research and estimation of stock size to optimize Icelandic quotas. Fiskistofa, The Icelandic Directorate of Fisheries, and Hafrannsóknarstofnun Íslands, the Icelandic Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, express that this project is very exciting to follow up on and that they will collaborate closely with Útgerðarfélag Reykjavíkur.

Automated catch registration

“We chose Maritech Eye™ because we see the possibility to solve the task of registering all our catch and believe it will greatly help optimizing our operations and give important research data to fishing authorities,” says Runólfur V Guðmundsson, CEO Útgerðarfélag Reykjavíkur.

“Útgerðarfélag Reykjavíkur is a leading Icelandic fishing company. They always try to use the latest technology on their vessels and work closely with all stakeholders in the industry. True pioneers,” says Konráð Hatlemark Olavsson, General Manager Maritech Iceland.

“As the industry is changing and the boats are getting bigger and more advanced, we see this as a natural part of the development – automated sorting, quality control, data collection, and documentation.”

Útgerðarfélag Reykjavíkur chose Maritech Eye for automated sorting onboard fishing vessels

Blood, Gaping, Fat, Nematodes ++

Automated and objective quality assessment, documentation and sorting, allows you to use your resources in a more cost-efficient way and improve your margins. With our standardized setups for salmon or whitefish, you can easily get started and get full return on your investment within just a few months. Ask us for an estimate.

Maritech Eye™ detects and documents blood spots, gaping (whitefish and salmon) melanin, salmofan, fat (salmon fillets), nematodes, and species (white fish fillets + round fish). As the scanning gives you objective documentation of the fish quality – in industrial speed, with a unique ID for each fish – you can easily provide this verification and traceability to your customers either they are wholesalers, supermarket chains or smaller buyers. If you buy fish from other, you will be able to verify that you pay for the quality you actually get.

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Nematodes detection at MareDeus, Portugal

Maximizing profit and quality

“This first vessel-based project is a milestone in several ways,” says Per Alfred Holte, VP Technical Solutions at Maritech. “Especially since the value creation at the fishing grounds is almost impossible to compensate for at a later stage in the seafood value chain. An increasing share of the quotas are caught by large vessels, it is crucial to ensure optimal operations at sea, data collection, and resource utilization.

With automated tools such as Maritech Eye™, both the industry and authorities ensure objective documentation and data collection, with considerably higher precision and efficiency compared to what you can get through a manual collection of random samples or inspection of complete catch volumes.”

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Brim and Hnyfill!

In early June, The Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition (IceFish) finally opened its doors to the public again.

It was great to be back! And a perfect occasion to sign our two new customers, Brim Seafood and Hnyfill.

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Brim testing Maritech Eye

Brim Seafood is one of the largest seafood companies in Iceland, specializing in wild-caught Atlantic Cod, Deep Sea and Golden Redfish, Greenland Halibut, Saithe, Mackerel, and Haddock. The initial phase of our new Brim partnership is a Maritech Eye™ test project, where the main goal is to increase the efficiency of Brim´s production and processing.

“We have been in dialogue with Brim for a while now, and they have been very positive right from the beginning. They are a leader in innovation and responsible fishing and have positioned themselves as an influencer in the Icelandic seafood industry,” says Konrad Olavsson, Maritech Iceland.

A natural next step

“Exploring the capabilities of Maritech Eye™ is a natural next step on this path, as they are now the first Icelandic company to start testing hyperspectral imaging for objective quality documentation and species sorting,” Olavsson continues.

“As Maritech Eye™ is the only solution of its kind in the world, that can actually document the inside of whole, round whitefish, this gives our customers a new competitive advantage in the global market – in addition to the efficiency gains, reduced waste, and other benefits such as the reduced amount of repetitive, manual tasks.”

Image: Konrad Olavsson, Maritech Iceland, and Gisli Kristjansson, Brim Seafood

Hnyfill + Maritech

A new Maritech Cloud customer was also signed at Icefish – Hnyfill will now be the first Icelandic company using Maritech Purchase & Sales for all their seafood trading processes. Hnyfill is a fish processor located in Akureyri in north Iceland. They have been operating for nearly 30 years and are moving into further digitalization of their processes together with Maritech.

“I’m not sure if it’s coincidence or fate that the meaning behind the word Hnyfill is ‘to pioneer,’ which is exactly what our relationship with them will do,” Olavsson smiles.

“We are looking forward to getting them up and running and aim to build a strong partnership for the future.”

Connected in Boston

The connection between Maritech and Hnyfill was established at Seafood Processing North America in Boston in March earlier this year.

“At the show we met the owners of Hnyfill and other processing and sales offices in Iceland. They showed us great interest since they have the need to digitalize their companies – preferably with the same IT partner to be able to cooperate and transfer information with more ease. Choosing Maritech as their trading software partner might just be the first step in our cooperation.”

Image: Konrad og Einar Örn Aðalsteinsson, Hnyfill

Hnýfill chose seafood trading software Maritech Purchase & Sales

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Webinar: Get to know Maritech Eye™!

Meet us on the 31st to learn about the benefits of hyperspectral machine vision in seafood quality inspection.

For the first time ever, it is now possible to automate objective quality analysis of red and white fish at industrial speed.

Sign up for our webinar on March 31st at 10:30 Eastern (EDT), to see how you can earn more, strengthen your brand, and get a greener seafood production!

With higher precision and far higher speed than a person, Maritech Eye™ can document the quality inside your fish. The solution is the only one of its kind in the world, scanning through the skin of white fish and analyzing + documenting blood spots in red fish fillets. And – enabling the grader to sort in industrial speed, while documenting the quality of each unique fish. Maritech Eye™ scans the fish early in the production process, enabling a more sustainable production due to reduced waste and improved resource productivity. Premium quality can be allocated for price premium products, while the rest of the fish can be used optimally in other product segments.

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Maritech Eye™

We are pleased to announce that Mowi Consumer Products UK has implemented Maritech Eye™ to further enhance the quality assessment of their Mowi brand smoked salmon.

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Automated, objective quality control and documentation

Beginning in 2018, Mowi, Maritech, and Nofima have cooperated in a joint innovation project to develop a technology for real-time quality scanning of salmon fillets at industrial speed. The project was successful, and Maritech Eye™ was launched for redfish at Aqua Nor in August 2021.

Maritech Eye™ advanced algorithms and hyperspectral camera solution detects and documents blemishes within the fillets and the size location of these quality challenges. This quality assessment method is the only one of its kind in the world, it is done at industrial speed, and live data is provided to operators and management.

After the end of the innovation project, Mowi Consumer Products UK and Maritech co-operated closely in a short pilot period to establish the quality criteria and make the necessary adjustments to integrate Maritech Eye™ within the production environment.

“For our business here in the UK and in particular the Mowi brand, this gives us the ability to pre-select fillets based on a specification to reduce the manual intervention of removing blemishes once the fillets have been sliced. Furthermore, sorting by quality and providing objective information gives us the ability to allocate the material accordingly and allows us to utilise our resources more efficiently and effectively” says Gary Paterson, Head of Operations, Mowi CP UK.

Ready for the global market

“Mowi is one of the most innovative seafood companies in the global seafood industry, and we are proud that they chose Maritech Eye™” says Per Alfred Holte, VP Technical Solutions in Maritech.

“Mowi Consumer Products UK is one of three international Maritech Eye™ redfish projects this fall, and we are impressed by how the Mowi team has handled the development and implementation in a period when it still has been difficult to travel due to Covid 19. Our team has only been at the site in Scotland once this year since the initial physical installation of the equipment.”

“Together we have proved that most of the optimization and implementation process can be done remotely and that Maritech Eye™ is ready for the global seafood industry, even during a pandemic.”

Per Alfred Holte - VP Technical Solutions, Maritech

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Revolutionizing the quality control of white fish

After 17 years of research, Maritech Eye™ is a reality.

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Objective quality scan

For the first time, fish producers can now determine whether they have caught world-class whitefish even before the fish is gutted.

On Monday 23 November, Maritech, research institute Nofima and Norsk Elektro Optikk (NEO) together with industrial partners Lerøy Norway Seafood and Lerøy Havfisk, proudly announced the launch of a new hyper-spectral camera solution Maritech Eye™– an innovation that may revolutionize the seafood industry. Hyper-spectral camera technology and complex algorithms now makes it possible to run automated, objective quality inspection of whole white fish, at industrial speed.

The Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Seafood, Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen, kicked off the official launch by sending the first fish through the machine that can identify the fish’s quality seeing through its skin.

Senior Scientist Karsten Heia and Minister of Fishery and Seafood Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen at Maritech Eye launch — Senior Scientist Karsten Heia and Minister of Fishery and Seafood Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen

“This is a great day! A day of champions in several ways”, said an excited Minister of Fisheries and Seafood, who – donning the yellow and black Bodø/Glimt football scarf – also celebrated his regional team´s recent football league championship win.

He said the people who developed the new quality inspection technology also had every reason to celebrate as champions this Monday.

”This project is a prime example of the possible achievements when the business and research communities collaborate on technical innovations. Better quality sorting will increase profitability and the reputation of the seafood industry”, said Ingebrigtsen.

In 2021, Maritech has also been launched for red fish – read more here.

Background

Maritech has been leading the innovation project and is the commercial provider of Maritech Eye™.

For 16 years, Nofima Senior Researcher Karsten Heia has collaborated with technology developers in NEO (Norsk Elektro Optikk) who have developed a hyperspectral camera for quality measurements of round fish.

The industrial trial was carried out at Lerøy Norway Seafoods’ Båtsfjord facility in Finnmark, Norway.
Maritech Eye™ is now also being tested on board the ocean-going fishing vessels of Norway’s largest trawler company, Lerøy Havfisk AS.

Maritech Eye - Quality scanning and species recognition of cod, salmon and other white and red fish in industrial speed.

Maritech Eye™ is the result of the KVASS research project on the quality measurement of whitefish through analysis of spectral images in real time. A business-led project funded by the Fishery and Aquaculture Industry Research Fund (FHF).

The project partners have great expectations for the impact of the machine in the industry.

“Lerøy works every day to raise the quality at all levels of our production of high-quality seafood. With this project, Lerøy has contributed to the development of a technology that provides a better and more consistent raw material quality, which in turn delivers seafood of an even higher quality to our customers,” says Roy Martin Martinsen, Quality Manager for whitefish as a raw material in Lerøy Norway Seafoods. “The intention is that Maritech Eye™ can be implemented in a process line and also contribute to a more efficient production by sorting the raw material based on different qualities in a fish grader” says Martinsen.

Currently the imaging spectroscopy technology is able to detect blood accumulation in ungutted (whole) fish. Roy Martin Martinsen expects that this technology will be developed further to allow the industry in the future to assess even more quality parameters and become even better equipped to deliver quality seafood to consumers.

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Sorting the catch onboard

Lerøy Havfisk AS is Norway’s largest trawler company with ten vessels and 29.6 trawler licences for cod. “In recent years, the company has placed a great emphasis on raising the quality of trawl-caught fish,” says Operations Manager Odd Johan Fladmark. He looks forward to using the new tool in this work.

“With this equipment, we now see the possibility of being able to better sort the catch on board based on quality, which makes it possible for us to offer a fully sorted raw material which is in line with the scanner’s objective. We believe this will give us a better price for the fish and improve profitability for the onshore facilities”, says Fladmark.

Stronger reputation

Those who have worked on the development of the technology are also hopeful and proud to have participated in a historical industrial innovation project, and expect to see a significant impact on the industry.

Maritech has worked closely with both scientists and the industry to develop the solution, and is very pleased with the result.

“This project excited me due to the possibilities which the objective quality measurements of the total volume of fish passing through the production lines provide us with in terms of a) analyses for uncovering possible process improvements and b) correct utilization of raw material based on its quality. And of course – the possibilities for optimizing factory operations”, says Odd Arne Kristengård, CEO of Maritech.

He points out that the associated reduction in wastage and quality complaints will result in increased profitability and sustainability. “Maritech Eye™ represents a significant competitive advantage which may transform the entire industry as well as help boost the reputation of Norwegian seafood exports further”, says Kristengård.

World leader

Trond Løke is the CEO of Norsk Elektro Optikk AS, which has been developing hyperspectral cameras (HySpex) since the early 2000s and is currently collaborating with prestigious Norwegian and international research communities.

“Nofima was our very first client and bought their first hyperspectral camera in 2003. I find it particularly enjoyable that, together with Maritech and in collaboration with Lerøy and Havfisk, we have now developed a complete commercial product which will revolutionize the quality control process for whitefish. For NEO it’s an extra feather in our cap that the fishing industry, a cornerstone of Norwegian industries, is among the first in the country to seriously take advantage of the hi-tech solution hyperspectral cameras represent. In this field we are actually world leaders”, says Trond Løke.

Karsten Heia, Nofima at the launch of Maritech Eye

Proud and excited scientist

Without Nofima scientist Karsten Heia, the solution that was launched on Monday would never have seen the light of day. He has been working on developing this technology for decades. The first time he attempted to measure the quality of fish by using imaging spectroscopy was in 1997. Back then it took half an hour to inspect a 10 x 10 cm skin-free piece of fish. Now, the solution can assess whole fish with skin at industrial speed.

“Today I am both a proud and excited scientist. Being able to utilize imaging spectroscopy in an industrial setting is a major milestone for me as a scientist, for Nofima as a research institute and for the Norwegian fishing industry. The fact that we, as an institute for applied research, using funding from the FHF, can contribute to uplifting the Norwegian business community in terms of both technological developments and innovations in the food industry, is a big deal”, says Karsten Heia.

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Seafood Traceability 2.0

Navigating the Seafood Traceability Landscape

Meeting modern demands with advanced solutions

Meeting and exceeding the seafood traceability challenge

Future proofing seafood traceability

Traceability that is trustworthy

The First Eye at Sea

Automated catch registration

Blood, Gaping, Fat, Nematodes ++

Maximizing profit and quality

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Welcome to Maritech,
Brim and Hnyfill!

Brim testing Maritech Eye

A natural next step

Hnyfill + Maritech

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