Fish farming data cruncher offers easier analysis of information

Aquaculture data intelligence software company Manolin has launched a new feature that enables farm teams to build configurable reports directly from the welfare, treatment, mortality, and environmental data already in its Watershed platform.

Manolin says the upgrade is its largest single product expansion in five years, and is designed to address the growing gap between aquaculture data collection and the analytical tools available to farm teams.

Welfare monitoring systems, environmental sensors, feed platforms, diagnostic tools, and population-management software now generate records across multiple systems, each with different formats and update cycles, says the Bergen-based company.

Farm teams running analysis across those records have largely relied on off-the-shelf BI (business intelligence) tools or custom-built solutions, says Manolin, but neither was designed with aquaculture data structures in mind, or to understand the biological data that makes treatment, mortality, and production comparisons meaningful across sites, generations, and transfer events.

Bridging the gap

The new feature has more than 75 data metrics, including welfare scores and welfare indicators, sea lice pressure, PCR test results, pharmaceuticals, risk modeling across 20 diseases, and accumulated mortality percentage by stocked fish count.

“The amount of data aquaculture operations are generating has outpaced the tools built to analyse it,” said Tony Chen, chief executive of Manolin.

“Farms are running welfare monitoring systems, environmental sensors, feed platforms, and diagnostic tools that each produce records in different formats on different timelines. The gap between data collection and analysis has largely been filled by manual processes and general-purpose tools that weren't built to understand biological data. This release is built for that gap. We want farm teams spending their time on the analysis, not on assembling the inputs for it.”

Manolin said the new feature was developed in direct response to feedback from farm operations globally, including teams across Norway, Scotland, Australia, and the Mediterranean, who identified welfare indicator access, flexible report layouts, and goal tracking as consistent operational priorities. The reporting feature is available to Watershed Explorer tier farms.