A dedicated LLM developed and architecturally engineered using operational insights from the EU Cluster of Food Traceability & Trust whitepaper, co-authored by Agritrack, Seafood Europe, leading universities and industry partners to support the practical implementation of Regulation (EU) 2023/2842.
EU imports of wild-caught fishery products now require rigorous digital traceability through the EU CATCH IT system (Regulation EU 2023/2842).
Importers must verify vessel, fishing gear, trip, landing weight, product, and lot-level information before shipments can clear customs. Relying on customs, quality, and operations staff to manually enter thousands of data fields into EU CATCH is slow, error-prone, and expensive.
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Industry experience shows that the challenge is not the availability of data—but the repeated manual transcription of already-documented information into multiple systems.
“Operators report that manually transcribing a single third-country catch certificate into CATCH can take anywhere from around 50 minutes to several hours, depending on the complexity of the consignment,” according to the Seafood Europe industry issue register.Â
Most third-country authorities have to issue paper-based multi-page certificates depending on the number of vessels involved. The costly administrative gap becomes clear between incoming documents and the necessary data entry required for customs, retailers, and internal systems.
Automates paper-based catch certificate processing, helping reduce data entry and overhead.
“Manually transcribing a single third-country certificate into CATCH can take anywhere from around fifty minutes to several hours”.
Transforms paper certificates and PDFs into structured, machine-readable traceability data ready for validation and integration.
“A PDF with unstructured text does not constitute a meaningful electronic submission”.
AquaTrack AI has been developed by Agritrack, leveraging the findings of the whitepaper CATCH in Practice: Bridging Regulatory Intent and Operational Reality under Regulation (EU) 2023/2842.
Convened under the EU Cluster of Food Traceability & Trust and supported by FoodGuard & ACT4FOOD EU Programmes, with co-authors: Agritrack SA, Seafood Europe (AIPCE-CEP), the German Association of Fish Processing and Fish Wholesale Industry, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Thammasat University, Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Thessaly, the Agricultural University of Athens and the University of Coimbra.
No infrastructure overhauls needed. Our software easily links with existing supply chain workflows and without disrupting active logistics pathways.
Inherent validation checks automatically cross-verify document parameters to catch errors, mismatches, or missing regulatory inputs before cargo ever arrives.
Free customs, compliance and quality teams from repetitive document transcription, allowing skilled staff to focus on core business growth rather than manual data entry.
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