FISHERY 1 FISHERY 2 FISHERY FISHERY 3 COMPANY PROFILE 10 Sharing knowledge through trainings and services 7 12 They put their trust in us SEAPIX 16 3D Volumic sonar 18 A next generation fishery acoustic system 20 Fishery hydro acoustic systems 14 22 SeapiX range 24 Biomass discrimation 26 Fish finding 28 Fish classification 30 Seabed description 32 Fishing operation management APPLICATIONS 37 Pelagic trawling 43 Bottom trawling 49 Tuna & purse seining 35 55 Fishery research 4 FISHERYFISHERY FISHERY 5 COMPANY PROFILE 6 FISHERYFISHERY FISHERY 7 iXblue stands as a global leader in the Combining Making Trusting iXblue design and manufacturing of innovative iXblue stands as a solutions for the navigation, imagery and the mastery of technology experts to positioning markets. Using its unique technology and accessible & implement technologies, the company offers its agility to solve adapting it tomorrow’s global leader in customers turnkey high-technology solutions, enabling them to address our customers’ to individual solutions the design and increased challenges and carry out issues customer needs. their operations with optimum efficiency and safety. At iXblue, we strongly It is our responsibility not only iXblue has always been manufacturing of believe that mastering to push technology forward an avant-garde high- iXblue is recognized throughout the technology is key to finding but also to make it accessible technology company: it is in industry for its expertise and products the answers to unsolved to our customers, In addition our DNA. By working with innovative solutions in underwater imaging, for its questions. We believe it is to adapting it to their very our experts, you choose acoustic positioning systems, and our responsibility to provide specific needs we must make to rely on our unique its range of fiber-optic gyroscope our customers with clear it easy to use, and easy to expertise and be visionary. for the navigation and (FOG) inertial navigation systems solutions. To that end, we master. That is why we strive You implement today’s (INS) which has revolutionized are capable of pushing to make our solutions: innovative solutions which subsea navigation in the last decade, technology beyond its will become tomorrow’s positioning markets. providing unequalled performance existing limits. • Tailored to customers’ standards. You embrace and cost of ownership benefits. Mastering technology also specific needs technological breakthrough. means being agile: in a • Easy to integrate The trust you place in iXblue complex and changing and deploy allows us to always go environment, iXblue is • Compatible with further and push technology convinced that our flexibility third-party sensors beyond its limits. allows us to find the • Easy to use solutions that best fit our • Reliable customers’ needs. • Cost-efficient 88 FISHERYFISHERY FISHERY 9 SeapiX, 3D Multi- beam Echo Sounder SHARING KNOWLEDGE in qualibration tank THROUGH TRAINING AND SERVICES Extensive expertise A dedicated team of experts Training 24/7 Support in subsea imagery Both manufacturing and Based in La Ciotat (France), our At iXblue, we care about your Underpinned by extensive assistance in implementing team of skilled professionals peace of mind and we stand experience in the field of iXblue technology is led provide customers with regular behind our products and subsea imagery, iXblue has by a dedicated team of training courses throughout solutions. Our trained support developed a complete range experienced experts on the the year, including: teams offer 24/7 assistance, of imagery solutions to meet fishery market. • Fishery acoustic theory, made easy thanks to the the operational requirements Combining both theoretical • Operation theory remote control of the SeapiX of fishermen. knowledge and on-hands • Fish classification operation consoles, and provide you with Based on a strategy of offshore experience, iXblue • Fishery research theory, top quality service, helping excellence and constant team of experts has formed • Operations at sea you meet your day-to-day innovation, iXblue systems close ties with fishermen • Scientific data processing, objectives. leverage the most advanced which enables them to come • Installation and and proven imagery up with the most relevant maintenance technologies for efficient and and innovative products reliable operations at sea. and solutions for the fishery market. 10 FISHERY FISHERY 11 They trust iXblue 1212 FISHERYFISHERY FISHERY 13 SEAPIX 14 FISHERYFISHERY FISHERY 15 3D VOLUME SONAR Complete fishery ecosystem monitoring, from water column fish discrimination to seabed mapping and classification As a military technology SeapiX generates one or more Its accuracy achieves an SeapiX is a new proven covered by a number of scan swaths along or across a unparalleled level, thanks to its technology, which will be vessel’s axis, providing total narrowest beams (1.6° x 1.6°), its updated every year with new patents, SeapiX is the first three-dimensional coverage advanced acoustic modulation features. It has been compact civilian system of the water column (in principles (resolution +-7.5 developed to provide comprising a dual Mills Cross order to provide metrological cm only) and its embedded fishermen and scientists with multibeam sonar transducer. target strength and volume motion sensor (each array has a next generation acoustic This technology provides backscattering strength) as stabilizing beams with a micro- instrument for more accurate unique volume coverage well as a bathymetric profile electric-mechanical systems biomass assessment. of the seabed and sediment (MEMS) sensor included in the Its advanced hardware and the highest volume identification analysis. sonar head)). Its transducer technology allows permanent resolution. generates several multibeam development of new Each detection operation in transmissions and acoustic processing operations the water column is referenced processes to yield quantitative and functions offering in 3D and is automatically and qualitative measurements new indicators. represented on a map created of the marine environment. To meet the requirements in real time, including local Its multiple advanced of the field, iXblue offers a bathymetry. According to IHO modulation modes, including complete range of SeapiX standards, SeapiX’s bathymetry, CHIRP, combined with pulse versions dedicated to fishery, when combined with external compression, guarantee the research and industrial high-quality motion reference highest possible detection applications. units, is “Special Order” level. performance, even in harsh environments. 16 FISHERY FISHERY 17 A NEXT GENERATION FISHERY ACOUSTIC SYSTEM Downward-looking 120° 120°121200°0° Facing constraints in of instrument for the fishing The SeapiX’s very high “3D 120°12020° productivity and fish stock industry and research: 3D pixel” resolution and its large management, the fishing MBES based on steerable volume coverage are two industry has to compromize symmetrical Mills Cross arrays, main conditions for making between selectivity and called “3D Sonar”. fish species classification profitability in their operations. As in standard MBES, The and realistic abundance Therefore new expectations original architecture of the assessment possible. have arisen for the SeapiX makes it possible to development of an innovative analyze a cross-section of the instrument capable of: water column and seabed and also to steer these sections • Searching a high water in the fore or aft direction of volume and a large area the vessel as well as swath of seabed in real-time analysis of the water column • Providing the highest spatial and bottom fore-and-aft resolution possible for sections. individual discrimination Side-looking Forward-looking • Analyzing a large number Steering capability in of individual fish transmission and reception allows120°12020° a volume of 120° × 120° 120°12020° 120° 120° 120°121200°0° 120°121200°0° Neither standard single/ to be covered below the ship split beam sounders or with a 1.6° × 1.6° beam aperture MBES provide this type of on the antenna axis mapping. information, due to the Three simultaneous angle- reconstruction time in the adjustable echograms from fishing zone’s volume. the desired swath To address this need, iXblue are processed. has developed a new type 18 FISHERY FISHERY 19 FISHERY HYDROACOUSTIC SYSTEMS Since 1950, fisheries have For a more realistic Volume resolution and range operated using hydro assessment, new advanced Key features acoustics systems to assist in features in hydroacoustic (At 100 m Having high resolution 3D fish abundance evaluation. instruments are required: Depth/distance) pixels in water, SeapiX provides Very simple time-distance 1 – The highest volume unexpected operating vertical sounder systems were resolution possible in order to • 3D pixel resolution range according to its hight installed on board fishing distinguish individual fish, even of volume: 0,6 m3 frequency. Its provides the vessels. Later, search light when scattered. • Water volume search: best of systems: Range similar and omni sonar systems 2 - The capacity to fully were developed to locate describe a shoal of fish in 4 Million m3 ah lower Frequency system, shoals. By the 1980s, scientists order to provide realistic fish while it provides unique had also developed a new abundance and behaviour. high resolution for realistic method to determine biomass To comply with these fish discrimination and using a vertical sounder demanding requirements,