EU's fishy digital certificate system leaves exporters floundering

Problems with a new digital European system for certifying fishing catches are hampering producers and delaying exports, according to ministers from several EU member states. The European Commission introduced the digital version of Catch on January 10, replacing equivalent paper systems, with the aim of tackling illegal …

[Gavsky]

Ah, where Government & IT meet is too often the 'Death Zone' for multiple projects, over decades. You'd think lessons had b...no.

What will the intended system do? What do the users need - from the 'coalface' up? Build, make it as simple as possible, test x infinity. Release.

[b0llchit]

This is the space where consultancy firms live and collect a fortune for doing as little as possible and have specialized units focussing on blame shifting.

[VoiceOfTruth]

Outsource it to Capita. They'll do it for €600,000,000. It will be late, it won't work. But they'll do it.

[Boris the Cockroach]

Why cant I upvote this more than once?

Anyway you spelt crapita wrong

[Doctor Syntax]

Maybe they did. My immediate reaction was to wonder which of the usual suspects was involved.

[JLV]

Ex colleague once told that a consultancy - begins with ac - he worked with had a particular core competency.

Not:

- specs

- coding

- project management

- …

No, it laid in institutionalizing 2nd level contract managers who would be parachuted in on a fail and would talk rings around clueless customers, leave, repeat as needed.

“By the time they left you were convinced their 6 month delay to your go-live was something they should be thanked for as they were bravely insuring your quality and stability”.

[Korev]

Something sounds fishy here...

[Pickle Rick]

It's bound to flounder...

[Doctor Syntax]

Don't tell a sole.

[Pickle Rick]

Too late, the news is all over the plaice.

[Anonymous Coward]

Floundering with no plaice for sole to hide after

deploying an AI Tur[d]bot ?

[Blue Shirt Guy]

There's a plaice for these sort of jokes.

[hoola]

I have a solution:

Simply place a barcode on each fish......

It can be done with apples so why not fish? They just need to be encouraged to swim near an appropriate printer/laser/zapper to be barcoded.

Or better still if you prefer GM, modify the fish so the barcode is integrated from the start :)

[PB90210]

The deity tried that with Zebra fish...

[David 132]

Perhaps a QR cod?

[Korev]

> "We keep getting inexplicable error messages, server errors," an employee of the company told the newspaper

Looks like they need to Catch their exceptions

[Pickle Rick]

Too many exceptions slipped through the net...

[cd]

Not scaling well...

[David 132]

Another fintech failure?

(seriously, I am disappointed that the Reg missed that very obvious pun)

[Bebu sa Ware]

I was expecting a story

about the EU bureaucracy stuffing up a top level PKI Certificate Authority rather than some high tech version of a fishing licence. Still there is always next week.

[Tron]

Pivot to digital they said. It'll be fine they said.

If paper works, just use it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Pivot to digital they said. It'll be fine they said.

Except it doesn't because the problem of illegal fishing (in the eyes of the EU authorities) continued. Whether the digital system will be any better when the faults are fixed remains to be seen.

[ThatOne]

Re: Pivot to digital they said. It'll be fine they said.

Stick an RFID chip on every fish, have fishers scan them (could even be automated), ready! Why doesn't anybody think of the easy solutions!...

_{Disclaimer: Above statement(s) is/are an example of "sarcasm", shouldn't be taken literally and don't reflect my personal opinion.}

[spireite]

So in summary, it's a cod-awful implementation.

[timrosu]

Nah, planned implementation is probably fine, it's just that it's not finished and these morons are essentially testing it in production. Happens more and more around the world... Why can't they just battletest it for at least a year before mandating it?