OGFishing.app

Log it.
Prove it.
Fish more.

A data logging tool for UK offshore anglers — every species, every encounter, every trip. Built to generate the science that protects access to our fisheries.

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The problem

UK offshore fishing generates almost no usable data

Every permit holder has to submit a trip report within 24 hours. But the current system is a web form you fill in from memory after getting back to port — sometimes hours later. The MMO's data is only as good as what people remember and bother to type.

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Fight times recalled from memory
The form asks for fight time in minutes. No timer. No timestamp. Just whatever you can remember standing at the kitchen table that evening.
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Location entered as a grid square
The MMO form uses ICES Statistical Rectangles — a 30-nautical-mile grid. You have to manually look up which square you were in. No GPS. No automatic conversion.
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Under-reported mortality means fewer permits
In 2025, self-reported mortality was 0.21% — a figure scientists called implausible. Poor data quality is the stated reason the MMO hasn't expanded to the full 230 permits it's allowed to issue.
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Non-permit holders generate zero data
Thousands of offshore anglers encounter BFT every season with no permit and no way to contribute to the dataset — even if they want to. That's valuable encounter data going to waste.
The app

What it looks like

Log a BFT encounter in five stages — everything captured live, at the moment it happens. No memory required.

BFT log
Species
History
OGFishing.app MMO-2026-0142 · Online
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HookMeasureConditionRecoveryRelease
Condition at boatside
Excellent
Good
Fair
Poor
Fork length181 cm
Fight time14 min 22 s (auto)
Est. weight119 kg (calc.)
GPS fix50.34°N 4.12°W
Recovery timer
02:14
time alongside / in water
Trip
🐟BFT
🌿Species
📋History
What it does

Built for the boat, not the desk

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Live timers
Fight time and recovery time captured automatically — no more guessing later.
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Offline first
Works with no signal. Everything syncs when you're back in range.
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GPS auto
Location captured and converted to ICES rectangle automatically.
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One-tap MMO
Permit holders submit their Defra Forms report in one tap at trip close.
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Works without a permit too
Any offshore angler can log BFT and bycatch encounters anonymously. No permit number required. Bycatch data is stripped of all vessel identity before it leaves your phone — the science gets the data, regulators don't get your name.
For the wider fleet

Your data builds the case for more permits

🔒 Anonymous by design

The MMO says it needs better data before it can expand to the full 230 permits. Our survey found one respondent alone had 200 accidental BFT hookups over 10 years — zero of which appear in any dataset. That data gap is exactly what keeps the permit ceiling low.

Log your encounters anonymously. The aggregate data shows where BFT are, what gear interacts with them, and what the real mortality picture looks like — built from the community, for the community.

Bluefin tuna
Every encounter invisible to MMO
Albacore tuna
UK stock size unknown
Blue shark
Bycatch mortality unknown
Mako shark
Near-zero UK rec. data
Porbeagle
Recovery needs data
Thresher shark
Tuna gear bycatch gap
Spurdog
Critically endangered
Common skate
Mandatory JNCC report
OGFishing.app
Your feedback

Would you actually use this?

Honest answers only — this is more useful to us than polite ones. Takes two minutes.

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Thank you.

Your feedback goes directly to the people building this. We'll share what we learn with the community — and if enough skippers say yes, we'll build it before the season opens.

Tight lines.