Who we are?

Based in Vancouver Canada, Vericatch is seen as the global leader in scaled digital catch reporting. We are passionate about improving the lives of harvesters and the health and sustainability of fisheries through better use of data. Vericatch has developed and support modern reporting tools that keep costs low and uptake high and are recommended and specified by governments and NGOs.

Investment

Vericatch has been supported by family offices and private investments from technology and fishing backgrounds. Our products are well liked and essential to our clients, which has fuelled resilient and growing revenues. We are ramping strongly in 2025 with mandated transitions in key fisheries we support and looking to raise growth capital as we expand geographically and with increased features and adjacencies.

Impact

Environmental and economic sustainability of fisheries relies on fisheries datasets which have been sadly lacking. Performance on UN SDG14 has been too slow. Key data to assess changing stocks and maximum sustainable catch has been lacking and is best captured at the point of harvest. Those harvesters are also keen to increase efficiency, reduce fuel usage (hence CO2) and improve the accuracy of target species harvesting without impacting non-target species. Data is the core to these improvements and eliminating IUU.

Future Growth

Vericatch has been focusing on the immediate opportunity as Canada mandates the to move to electronic logbooks, but inevitably we have been asked to support international government and NGO initiatives leveraging our platform. This represents tremendous growth potential. We have also seen great interest in how harvester data supports provenance for import regulations and legitimacy of the seafood supply chain, reducing retailer risk. Additionally we seem growing harvester feature requests and value, so there is no shortage of opportunity in the $472B+ seafood business.