| Project Background Information |
|
Who
collects the info? | What is the info collected? | How is the info
collected? | What do you receive ?
Benefits | Cost | Company
sign up sheet | Sample report | Print this fact sheet |
| |
| Who collects the information: |
| |
Sign-up and weekly information is collected by the AVC
Lobster Science Centre, at the University of Prince Edward
Island. This will ensure that corporate information submitted by individual companies
will remain confidential. This third
party “arm’s length” relationship is critical to the success
of the project and it guarantees professional data collection,
assures confidentiality and eliminates any opportunity for Industry manipulation
of the data collected. |
| |
| What is the information collected: |
| |
At sign-up: |
- Company contact information;
- Company staff member (name and contact information) responsible
to send inventory data, plus one
alternate; and
- Total storage capacity (in lbs) by regions (provinces and/or
states).
View the Company Sign Up Sheet
|
| |
Weekly: |
- Total live lobster inventory (in lbs) as of Wednesday 12:00PM
by regions (provinces and/or states).
|
| top |
| How the information is collected: |
| |
There are four (4) ways Individual companies can send their inventory information
to the AVC Lobster Science Centre:
- email;
- fax;
- phone;
- or
by filling out a secure online form on the Online Lobster Inventory System website.
View the on-line data entry tutorial.
|
| top |
| What do you receive? |
| |
Weekly inventory data will be made available on the Online
Lobster Inventory System website within 48 hrs of the cutoff
time each week. Participants can access the secure website using an assigned
username and password. The information is summarized by region to maintain
confidentiality for each participating Company. The website is user friendly and allows for easy access to current inventory report as
well as previous weekly reports. Over time,
this project will store historic data so that year by year comparisons will be
readily available.
Participating Companies receive weekly emails/faxes containing
a summary table for the most current live lobster
inventory data.
View a sample report. |
| top |
| Some of the benefits of this project: |
| |
- This System allows for real-time knowledge of live lobster
inventory from a representative group of Companies in
the Industry – both in Canada and the USA. The more Companies participating,
the more effective this vehicle becomes
at tracking overall inventory levels in any given week.
- Overall enhanced industry knowledge about inventory levels.
This will allow individual Companies to make better
informed Business Decision, leading to better Returns on Investment.
- There is a direct link from the Online Lobster Inventory System
website to the LFAs 33/34 Lobster Moult & Quality
Monitoring project website, creating an easy gateway to additional information
from the latest data available from this
specific project as well as other activities of the AVC Lobster Science
Centre.
|
| top |
| Costs for the Inventory System: |
| This project is organized on a “Cost Recovery” basis
by the AVC Lobster Science Centre with an annual fee to be negotiated. |
| top |
| Links |
|
| |
For more information, contact the AVC Lobster Science
Centre
* 902-894-2884 * lobster@upei.ca * www.lobsterscience.ca * |
