Do you know what fish is sold at the fish market ‘la lonja’ and how much it costs?

Investigators of the Project Digipesca creat a database of nearly 5 million data of the fish market of the Spanish Mediterranean fish.

A team of the Universitat Politècnica de València, with the collaboration of investigators of other five spanish universities that work with the Digipesca Project, has created a new and powerful resource that will help the scientific community to study and understand the extraction and commercialisation of the products of the sea.

In particular they have generated a set of 12 bases of data that is presented, each one of them, about 400.000 related variables with related variables sales made in the Spanish Mediterranean fish markets and also in the Atlantic that bathes Andalusia from 2010 to 2021. In total, they have accomplished to collect, from different sources of regional information, close to 5 million of data about commercialized species in different fisherman ports: quantity, average price and turnover of each species per fish auction per month for twelve years.

The goal is that the collected data serves to support future work of research that allow, knowing how the quantity fluctuates and the prices of the fish disembarked, designed or selected of the better strategies of purchase and sale that will make better the sustainability of the fishing activity. Thus, as one of the authors of the work points out, it is a large database that will be useful from a social and economic point of view, but also biologically, providing information on the availability and rate of extraction of commercial species.

The databases, which are uploaded to the Institutional Repository of the Universitat Politècnica de València, RiuNet, and are available on the Digipesca website (https://digipesca.webs.upv.es/), are free to use and access. In the same line of work, the DIGIPESCA project is working on the development of Artificial Intelligence applications in order to improve the commercialisation processes of fishing in fish