Myriax EchoView software is the industry standard for fisheries acoustics software and the primary software used by our Acoustics Team for data analysis. Myriax is the developer and sole provider of the software worldwide and have been extremely helpful with a quick response time in addressing NOAA/NMFS needs and concerns in software updates. The developers make a concerted effort to stay in touch with us and solicit input from their users to improve the software. This vendor provides a superior product and has a proven track. Myriax (formerly SonarData) is the developer and sole provider of the Echoview software worldwide.

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