Leading Chinese telecommunications company Huawei is advising China’s aquaculture sector on how to improve the efficiency and profitability.
“We can use digitalization to drive fish and PV together,” said Wang Xi Shan, head of Huawei’s Intelligent PV project focused on the province of Anhui and Jiangsu, speaking at a conference on innovation in the PV solar business.
Huawei has been promoting Solarfusion and Solar-Fish-Complementarity – networking services which manage electricity generation from solar panels installed in aquaculture facilities while also managing feed and water circulation. As it seeks to decarbonize its economy and create new sources of income for rural dwellers, China has trialed the integration of agriculture, aquaculture, and renewable energy. Leading agricultural conglomerate Tongwei Group has invested significantly in solar power.
Wang spoke at a conference co-organised by the China Fisheries Association (CFA), a government sponsored body which has been seeking to promote the use of big data and artificial intelligence in order to manage disease and productivity in the sector while also managing challenges like climate change.
The China Intelligent Fisheries Association was set up recently as a sub group of the China Fisheries Association (CFA) to bring data specialists and fishing companies as well as officials together in harnessing data to improve management in both catch and farmed fisheries.
China will seek to harness big data and machine learning to combat disease and illegal fishing as well as pollution threats, according to Lin Yi, secretary general at the CFA who spoke at the launch of the new body.
“We can use data to forecast, to predict and to assist in decision making,” according to Wang San Shou, a national figure in big data and head of Jiu Ci Fang Big Data Co (it uses the English name JusFoun in its logo) which, in June, signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Fisheries Association to continue working together on big data in R&D, logistics, and finance in the seafood sector.
“Huge efficiencies can be achieved in China’s fisheries with big data,” according to Xie Zhu, head of the new organisation and CEO at Ningbo Hui Shang IT Co – a firm which specialises in wifi and satellite systems that allow Chinese trawlers to sell their catch from offshore.
