Species
The configurations made here will benefit you when you are reporting your daily “Fishing Activity Report”. Everything configured in this menu will return later on in the program when adding your tows.
Adding fish species
In the screen specie types one can select several types of species. To add a specie type you have to do the following: At the bottom of the screen, first choose “Species” (this can be done by clicking on the field and typing the first few letters of the specie type and then selecting it) after this is done go to the field “Quality” and then “Presentation” followed by “Condition” which is the state in which the fish are in. You can also add a standard amount of fish per box in kg. It is important to know that only presentation types can be chosen of which the conversion factor are known. The number of presentation forms per fish type can therefore differ. For instance, cod will have more presentation forms than plaice or sole. If a fish type can’t have a certain type of presentation selected, this means that there is no conversion factor known and should be selected as whole. When all fields are filled out and selected use the button “+Add” and your selection will be added to your specie list.
In the picture below there are several fish species added to the favorites. Also note that the fish type can be added to favorites multiple times. This can be done, when gutted and whole plaice is landed.
Removing fish species The removal of fish types from the list of favorites can be done by going to the overview and selecting the fish type in question. The selection will turn the bar blue and then you can click on the button “Remove selected species from favorites” above the overview to remove them.
Filling in the price of the fish species
If you add the price of a specie type in the list of favorite fish species for instance, by using the price of the previous total, the program will calculate the value of the total amount of fish caught so far. Adding the price goes as follows, select a fish type from the overview, fill in the price in the field labeled “price per kg” and hit enter. The next fish type in the overview will be automatically selected to be filled out as well.
Conversion Factor
By default E-Catch has setup conversion factors for the live weights per specie and presentation. But this factor can be altered and changed. Select the specie in your list and select the conversion factor you want to change. After these selections are made use the “Amend factor” button. You can input your new conversion factor value in the popup window and confirm the use of this new factor. When manually changed a factor you will notice a tick in the box “Manual”, this will help remind you of your changes.
Percentage of total catch In some cases a certain species can only be caught and landed if it does not exceed a certain percentage of the total catch. For these species you can select them on the lift hand side of the screen and type in the percentage on the right hand side of the screen. You can use the < and > sign in the dropdown menu to indicate whether the selected species need to be a minimum or maximum percentage of the catch.
