Fishing boats inside a marine protected area
Fishing boats inside a protected area, to the officers every hour.
What it does
Every hour: fishing vessels inside your marine protected area (live AIS), each sent to the fisheries officers on WhatsApp with where it was seen, and logged in a sheet.
In one sentence: Every hour at :00, in Muscat, watch the ships, see which enter the zone, then send message in WhatsApp Business, email the list to you and add row in Google Sheets.
Why it is useful
Protected areas only work if they are watched. Officers are told when fishing boats enter.
Who it is for
Fishing & aquaculture. Fishing cooperatives, fish farms, seafood traders and fisheries authorities watching the sea and the weather and selling the catch fresh. Every use case for fishing & aquaculture
Best use cases
- A fisheries authority
- A marine park
- A coast guard
What each run gives you
- A WhatsApp message
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Every hour at :00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 15 minutes each time; it runs about 720 times a month, so it saves about 40 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every hourTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- The protected areaWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Fishing boats nearbyxMap data · Ships (AIS)Ships at sea or in port right now, from AIS (the signal ships send with their position, speed and heading; live from AISStream): every vessel heard in the Area of interest before this block, or around a point.
- Inside the protected areaLogic · Zone alertReports items (ships, for example) that entered, crossed, are inside or left a zone.
- Alert the fisheries officersApp · WhatsApp BusinessSend text, media and template messages from your WhatsApp Business number.
- Log them in a sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Zone alerts: know when something enters an area: Ships, vehicles or any moving item crossing your zone.
- Ships (AIS): Ships in a sea area, their type, speed and destination.
- Draw your areas and points: Shapes, circles and points with a distance around each.
- Get messages on WhatsApp: Add your number once; your AI employees write to you from xMap’s WhatsApp, nothing to connect.
- Geofencing: A virtual boundary that triggers something when an item enters or leaves it.
- AIS (ship tracking): Radio messages ships send with their identity, position and course.
- How to be alerted when ships enter a port area: A zone, a live AIS stream and an alert.
More for Fishing & aquaculture
- Seafood restaurants to sell to directly: Seafood restaurants offered fish landed the same morning.
- Fish processing plants to buy from our farms: Processing plants scored as buyers for farmed fish.
- Go or stay: wind at sea for small boats: A go or stay note for small boats, the evening before.
- Fishing tackle shops for my gear distribution: Tackle and marine shops with the owner, for gear sales.
- Hot days at fish farms: oxygen risk: Oxygen and feeding advice for each fish farm before hot days.
- Storm coming: secure the boats: A notice to haul out or double the lines before strong wind.