FishOps

The main menu screen of the app
A live screenshot of the main map screen with a marine protected area displayed in red
A screenshot of a marine protected area alert generated when a user enters an MPA. This also shows the app translated into Tagalog.
The official app logo
The app screen logo
The laws and decrees portion of the app
The resources portion of the app

Inspiration

Our team was inspired by the idea of using apps to help people in any part of the world fish sustainably. We focused on creating a system that is easy to use by anybody, requires no technical knowledge, and is robust enough to be easily scaled.

What it does

This app provides instant location-based regulation data to local fishers in the Philippines. It uses cell tower GPS data to track a user, display local marine protected areas, and alert them when they enter a regulated area. The app also provides laws and decrees, resources, and weather alert data which is generated for localized regions. FishOps is easily scalable, and can already be used in either English or Tagalog.

How we built it

Our team built this app in three days during the Monterey Bay Aquarium Fishackathon. We primarily used Android Studio, Google Maps API, Sqlite, and Adobe Illustrator.

Challenges we ran into

It was challenging to draw the local marine protected areas on a dynamically created map, and allow the user to interact with those areas. The database design was also a challenge, and took a significant amount of time to solve.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting the weather alerts to work properly was a major accomplishment! This was a stretch goal from the beginning, and we were lucky that we had enough time to get it working. We are also very proud that the app works in Tagalog, as this will make it easy to use in the Philippines out of the box, and simple to port to other countries as well.

What we learned

Our team learned a lot about fishing issues in the Philippines, what has been done already there, and what needs to happen in the future. We also learned more about working with Android studio, particularly the Google Maps API and Sqlite databases.

What's next for FishOps

We plan to continue working on this project no matter what! We're all very passionate about what we've done so far, and will continue to develop the app, hopefully with a full release in the future.

Built With

Submitted to

Fishackathon 2016

Created by

I worked on the backend database, helped develop the front end GUI, fixed Git issues, presented the project, and produced the video for the Devpost submission.

Joshua Kling
I created the FishOps logo and did app graphics. This was my first time doing graphics for an application so I learned about the process.

Sarah Anderson
I worked on the localization of the languages to detect when the phone was in English or Tagalog. I also contributed to the creation of the MPA map.

Ryan Green
I worked on the map part of the project. I took all of the marine protected areas and drew them onto the map. I also tracked the phone and detected if the location entered a marine protected area, and gave a notification to the user.

Zac Leids
I helped with the research about the Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and helped translate the language from English to Tagalog.

Andrea Perez
I worked on planning the UX/navigation, database access, as well as the display information activity.

Nate Pincus
I implemented the weather notifications API and the boilerplate Google Maps API, as well as provided the authorization credentials for them. I also helped with Git issues as needed and helped with the Marina Protected Area (MPA) map.

Gregory Greenleaf
I live on the Monterey Peninsula with my wife and I’m a software engineering graduate from CSUMB.
The first night, I worked on the UML diagrams, and overall design of the project. As for the following days, I worked on creating and connecting the backend database with the front end GUI screens. I also created the page which switched the fishery restrictions based on the area selected.

Karen Tafolla
I worked with our awesome designer to create the landing page of the app and created screens that displayed fishing laws and resources for the Philippines.

Brian Huynh