Introducing the ICT Operation Control System of Fish Aquaculture in Japan

Abstract

As the action strategy planned by prefecture office to boost the exporting of yellow tail products, the academic-industrial cooperation project has facilitated the ICT systems on seafood fish aquacultures farm in Kagoshima prefecture. The purpose of the ICT facilitating is to sophisticate the system of production control, which is expected to improve the workload such as manual work using pens and record papers, re-typing the data on PC after working on the farm and data sorting to think better operation control. In Japan, aquaculture operators have not put attention digital recording system because the control skill knowhows have been in operator brain as his and her tacit knowledge, but the ICT will take an opportunity to change the laborious manual work, and to start data analysis for improving the management controls. Seafood market will continue grow world widely, from the sight of prepare for being high level business operation, digital data system will be more important to introduce scientific business approaches to improve the management control.