Clean Catch Self-reporting App

The AST Group Ltd

About this app

Who will use the Wildlife Bycatch Reporting App?

The CleanCatch (Clean Catch) App is the tool which will enable commercial fishers to voluntarily self-report any bycatch (unintentional capture), of sensitive marine wildlife during their daily fishing activities. Working in partnership through the Clean Catch project, this App has been co-developed between fishers and scientists to report the unintentional bycatch of multiple wildlife species. Scientists will use the information provided for research purposes only, to build a better picture of when and where wildlife species are bycaught in UK fisheries.

The Clean Catch project supports UK Governments commitment to work closely with the fishing industry, with the industry taking a greater shared responsibility for sustainably managing UK fisheries through reducing, and where possible, eliminating the bycatch of sensitive marine species.

Clean Catch ‘Joint Action to Reduce Wildlife Bycatch’, ultimately promotes the drive for ‘clean’ catch UK fisheries, free from unintentional vulnerable species bycatch.