Developing a Pre-Event Planning Tool for Modified Unified Method Fishing Events (Web Application)
UMESC supports Federal and state management agencies in their battle against invasive carp in the United States by conducting research, monitoring fish, and developing decision support tools. The Chinese Unified Method is a fish harvest method that uses herding techniques and a variety of nets to drive fish and concentrate them for capture. UMESC supported the development of the “Modified Unified Method”, which incorporates adapted techniques and modern technology for efficient, mass removal of bigheaded carp in American waters. We are working to improve its effectiveness and efficiency to maximize invasive carp removal efforts.
We are developing decision support tools to help researchers and fisheries managers efficiently conduct Modified Unified Method (MUM) events. We developed an internal, pre-event planning tool as a web application in ArcGIS Online.
The tool includes a simple-to-use map viewer with high-resolution bathymetric data layers. MUM event managers can draw their planned fishing operations on the map interface, identify potential areas where fish might evade capture (e.g., gaps between fishing nets and the bottom of the river or lake), adjust planned net locations accordingly, and visualize the updated results. This pre-planning tool also allows event managers to take this type of operational information into the field with them during MUM events.
This effort is funded in part by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI).
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“Modified Unified Method” of Carp Capture (Fact Sheet)
UMESC supports Federal and state management agencies in their battle against invasive carp in the United States by conducting research, monitoring fish, and developing decision support tools. The Chinese Unified Method is a fish harvest method that uses herding techniques and a variety of nets to drive fish and concentrate them for capture. UMESC supported the development of the “Modified Unified Method”, which incorporates adapted techniques and modern technology for efficient, mass removal of bigheaded carp in American waters. We are working to improve its effectiveness and efficiency to maximize invasive carp removal efforts.
We are developing decision support tools to help researchers and fisheries managers efficiently conduct Modified Unified Method (MUM) events. We developed an internal, pre-event planning tool as a web application in ArcGIS Online.
The tool includes a simple-to-use map viewer with high-resolution bathymetric data layers. MUM event managers can draw their planned fishing operations on the map interface, identify potential areas where fish might evade capture (e.g., gaps between fishing nets and the bottom of the river or lake), adjust planned net locations accordingly, and visualize the updated results. This pre-planning tool also allows event managers to take this type of operational information into the field with them during MUM events.
This effort is funded in part by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI).
Learn More
“Modified Unified Method” of Carp Capture (Fact Sheet)