Fishing Setup

The Fishing Setup card holds the core configuration for the Fishing module, number series, wage/landing percentages by vessel type, catch assessment method, and how trips are handled at landing.
I can be opened from Search -Fishing Setup, or from the Fishing role center.


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Fishing Setup
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Tab: General

  • Fishing Trip Nos. to set the number series used for new fishing trips.

  • Raw Material Location (Vessel) / Product Location (Vessel) for the default inventory locations for raw material and (freezer trawler) product catch.

  • Fishing Trip: Initial Month shows the month a vessel's fishing year starts. It is used to count how many trips per year a vessel has run and to reset the trip's "Trip No. (Within Year)" counter.

  • Freezer Trawl. FOB Price Group / Freezer Trawl. CIF Price Group , the FOB and CIF price groups applied to freezer trawler fishing trips.

  • Fixed Weight of Masters Yield, the fixed weight used for master's yield on freezer trawlers.

  • Currency Code of Fishing shows the currency of landed catch.


Tab: Landing

  • Require Dimension 1 shall be marked if no Fishing Trip may be landed without global dimension 1 on every line.

  • Require Dimension 2 shall be marked if no Fishing Trip may be landed without global dimension 1 on every line.

  • Upd. Product Price at Landing shows whether product prices are refreshed from the price list at landing instead of using the prices recorded earlier on the trip.

  • Assessment Type to show which catch-assessment method is used to turn sample weighing / size / quality assessments into fishing trip lines.
    The default is Sample weighing, see Associating Weight Size and Quality Assessments

  • Market Sales Cost % to set the market sales cost percentage used in market cost calculations.


Landing: Catch to Inventory

  • Land Method for External Vessel to show how landing is handled for vessels that are not "Own Vessel, Landed in Stock". Available options are Ask (prompt the user each time), Invoice (create a purchase invoice), Order (create a purchase order), or Land (just land the trip, no purchase document), see Landing Fishing Trips

  • Land Method for Own Vessel shows whether sales agreements are created automatically when a fishing trip with raw material is landed for an own vessel. It can be set to Create Sales Agreements. to enable this).

  • Landing Products shows whether product catch that was not fetched from inventory should still be landed to inventory, or never landed automatically.


Landing: Contribution Calculation

  • Wages% Icefish Vessel is the wage percentage used in crew settlement calculations, for normal vessels.

  • Landing% of Icefish Vessel for the landing percentage applied, for normal vessels.

  • Wages% Freezer Trawler — the wage percentage used in crew settlement calculations, for freezer trawlers.

  • Landing% of Freezer Trawler for the landing percentage applied, for freezer trawlers.

Tab: Quota