Artificial intelligence now counts every fish caught at sea
Digital eyes now monitor every hook and net across millions of ocean acres, replacing human observers with vision systems that never sleep or get seasick.
For decades, the only way to know what happened on a commercial fishing boat was to send a human observer to live on board for weeks. Today, the U.S. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is replacing those cramped bunks with high-speed cameras and artificial intelligence. These systems scan every fish as it slides across the deck, instantly identifying the species and measuring its length with more precision than a person with a tape measure.
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