Hi ICT4Fisheries Network,
What ICTs are you using? What tech are you interested in learning more about? Post below to share ideas and insights.
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EDF and partners have been working on a few different applications of technology to fisheries. One that I'm particularly excited about — which we've called SmartPass — uses shore-based camera systems coupled with machine learning to identify, classify and enumerate fishing vessels to estimate fishing effort. We've been testing it in recreational fisheries in the United States and in a small-scale commercial fishery in Indonesia. We just released some resources on this, including a video and white paper, available at https://www.edf.org/smartpass
Great stuff @Sara! Do you have monitors on the ground to cross check? And secondly was their any push back from fishers when cameras installed?
Wow this sounds really interesting. Do you think it would also work in terms of counting artisanal fishing boats? Thinking along the lines of small wooden sailboats and/or outrigger canoes?