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Environmental Business Review | Wednesday, April 26, 2023
The innovative ocean technologies can turn fishing vessels into "smart boats" and alter how we handle fisheries against climate change, backing thriving and resilient communities and ecosystems.
FREMONT, CA: Based on research, about 3 billion people globally depend on seafood as a primary protein source and a considerable part of their livelihood. The overfishing crisis is rapidly approaching - if we do not act by 2030, more than 80% of fish stocks will be depleted.
Thankfully, we are at the center of a digital revolution allowing better fisheries handling, smarter business decisions, and more resilient coastal groups. A growingly wide range of technological innovations — from automated species identification software to unmanned aerial drones to acoustic surveillance — are being applied to fisheries globally.
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These innovative technologies can turn fishing vessels into "smart boats" and alter how we handle fisheries against climate change, backing thriving and resilient communities and ecosystems.
Smart Boat Initiative
With Smart Boat Initiative, people can test and scale new sensors, networks, data analysis, and other technologies to open modern frontiers for fishing fleets of all sizes.
Triumph for these projects depends not just on the technology but on science-founded catch limits, good governance, and incentives for fishers to follow — the trademarks of well-managed fisheries.
Activity identification and wireless transmission for fisheries electronic surveillance.
Fishermen in Oregon utilize EM video technology for obedience and to view back deck fishing actions in real-time.
Systems on large vessels can lower the costs of surveillance of what boats catch, a major part of handling fishing sustainably.
Electronic reporting for sustainable fisheries managing.
An AI-equipped "smart camera" recognizes the number of fishing vessels driving through the area. Digitization of fisheries data further allows a slew of technological progress.
Automatic species recognition with machine learning.
Cameras equipped with AI are employed on a groundfish trawl fishing vessel to recognize harvested fish for various species and sizes.
Ocean Tech companies are designing AI tools like species identification and size measurements to lower the monitoring burden from fishers during their ordering operations and allow the growth of electronic technologies throughout the complete fleet.
SmartPass
Computing the total amount of fish caught is the greatest issue left to solve in most entertaining and small-scale fisheries. SmartPass connects digital cameras and artificial intelligence to solve this challenge head-on.
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