Pescadata - an app for small scale fishing communities

Small scale fishers and fishing communities are on the front line of marine conservation activities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Yet despite having the most immediate awareness of changing conditions, and being most adversely impacted by changes, Big NGOs (BINGOs) drive the agenda.

PescaData was incubated by the non-profit COBI from 2017-2022 as an electronic catch register for eco-certifications. As PescaData grew, it began to provide Software as a Service (SaaS) and collective action tools to fishers and fishing organizations, through a scalable and commercially viable platform model.

PescaData was officially launched in 2022 to scale implementation and improve the productivity, sustainability and quality of life of small-scale fishers in Latin America, on a commercially viable platform model. It is now time to scale this to the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Pescadata is the most widely used fisheries tech in Latin America

• Pescadata has more than 2500 users, and is available in both the Apple's App Store, and the Google Play Store

• More than 3 million kilograms of catches logged by early adopters

• Peer-to-peer solutions exchange launched in 2022 now hosts more than 170 community solutions from three countries

• A marketplace allows users to post offers, requests, and discussions about fishing

• API connections with the iNaturalist species database, Windy, and the Hylo social network

• The launch of a communication campaign targeting 300,000 small scale Mexican fishers