Fisheries and oceans

Fisheries support food, jobs, coastal communities and ways of life. They also depend on healthy oceans and resilient marine ecosystems.

Good management starts with understanding what is happening beneath the surface. Dragonfly works with governments, international organisations, industry and others across fisheries to build that understanding.

Our independent science helps people with different interests understand what is happening and make decisions about the future of fisheries and the ocean.

Good fisheries science combines scientific expertise, reliable information and methods people can understand and trust. We use fisheries science, population dynamics and statistical modelling to understand how marine populations are changing and why.

Good data and infrastructure make that science possible. Our scientists, statisticians, engineers and designers work across the whole process, from databases and data preparation through modelling and analysis to reproducible reports, forecasts and practical tools.

Fish populations move. Ocean conditions shift. Climate change is reshaping marine ecosystems. New catch and survey information arrives. Rules, markets and management priorities move too.

Many of the people we work with need more than a one-off answer. They need information about their fishery that can be updated annually, monthly, weekly, daily or in real time.

Dragonfly can keep the data, methods, models, code and tools connected over time. This makes the science transparent and reproducible, so it can be checked, updated and used again as new information comes in.

For questions that need to be answered again and again, we can manage the whole scientific process as an ongoing service, providing independent science that stays current and repeatable.