Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is involved in a broad range of fisheries research and monitoring activities including water chemistry, aquatic vegetation, coarse fish, pike, salmonids, “conservation” species, estuarine and marine fish. Many of the projects are applied fisheries management projects dealing with diverse pressing issues such as measuring the attainment of salmon conservation limits, management of invasive aquatic species and reporting on the conservation status of EU Habitats Directive designated species. 

IFI is inviting tenders for the supply of a data buoy with customised temperature profiling system (thermistor string) suitable for long term deployment and associated wireless communication and data management system and near real time data delivery. Technical details are outlined in Technical Specification. The contract is to supply and deliver one functioning system.