Dynamic spatial management across a dynamic environment.

Dynamic Oceans turns live satellite oceanography, fleet data and predator behaviour into daily fishery management zones.

Inside the platform → The pilot

What we do

Live ocean data, predator behaviour, daily decision support.

Fish, predators and fishing effort move across space and time. UK fisheries management still relies on annual quota decisions and static management zones. We close that gap with three layers that update daily.

Live ocean data

Satellite SST, mixed-layer depth, chlorophyll, currents, salinity and oxygen are refreshed every six hours from Copernicus Marine. The data backbone of every prediction.

Predator behaviour

We tag and track top predators. Telemetry data informs us when and why predators are actively foraging. This is a real time indicator of where commercial species are aggregating. These near real time inputs are what predict our spatial forecasts

Daily decision zones

Three zones: recommend, mixed, avoid. Spatially defined by a fish-the-line boundary that aims to protect the core of the stock. Built to inform decisions, not to replace them.

How it works

From satellite data to a skipper's chart in four steps.

Ingest

Daily Copernicus pulls. EMODnet seabed. Telemetry from tagged predators.

Detect

Three front detection algorithms. Persistence and age. Bathymetric features.

Model

Space state and habitat use models per species. Opportunity and predator-risk surfaces.

Publish

Decision zones, fish-the-line geometry, partner dashboards.

Inside the platform

A working operations dashboard, not a research demo.

Practitioners: fleet partners, regulators and research collaborators. Sign in to the live Map Explorer with daily decision zones, scenario controls, and the underlying methodology in full.

app.dynamicoceans.com

Map Explorer

Near real time fish-the-line spatial closure zones.

View

Today only 7-day trajectory Today / T+1 comparison

Layer

Fish the line boundary

Operational status

Scenario

Balanced

Environment

Fresh

Monitoring

Current

Report

Current

Advisory run

11 May 2026, 11:00 UTC

Centroid shift vs previous run

0.09°

Polygon overlap with previous

0.61

Faithful preview. The live platform is at app.dynamicoceans.com · approved-email access only.

The pilot 55.0° – 60.5° N · −10.0° to −4.0° W

The Outer Hebrides

The pilot roughly covers the ICES rectangles within the seascape from 55.0° to 60.5° North and from −10.0° to −4.0° West, covering the Sea of the Hebrides, the Minch shelf and the Malin Shelf to the south.

The four reasons this is the right region for the pilot::

Well documented, persistent ocean fronts. Especially, The Islay Front and the Tiree Passage frontal system.
Active spatial protection. The Sea of the Hebrides Marine Protected Area is partly designated on the basis of those fronts and the minke whale aggregations that feed at them.
Active commercial pelagic and mixed fisheries. Mackerel, herring, sprat, and demersal mixed stocks, so any operational signal generated has real economic relevance.
A credible data backbone. Scotland has an existing high-resolution ocean model (the Scottish Shelf Model) and a Remote Electronic Monitoring rollout going through the pelagic fleet.

Where we are

What is live, what is a prototype, and what is coming?

An operational prototype with a real oceanographic backbone.

Live & operational

Environmental backbone

Live Copernicus pulls every six hours. Front detection, persistence, opportunity scores, T+1 forecasting and validation, all running today.

Synthetic prototype

Predator behaviour

The pipeline runs on synthetic predator tracks today. Real telemetry can be integrated in the future.

Coming Year 2

Restricted fisheries data

VMS, logbook and REM data soon.

For Practitioners

Get inside the platform.

Marine managers, regulators, partner researchers and pilot fleets can request access to the operational platform: daily maps, decision zones, fish-the-line geometry, scenario controls, and the underlying methodology in full.

Access is approved per individual.