Boston-based Innovasea has begun testing a new tagless technology that can detect, count and classify fish in real time using a combination of imaging sonar, optical cameras and artificial intelligence.
The technology has been shown in early trials to be 90 percent accurate in properly counting and identifying wild fish, Innovasea and its partners said in a statement. Innovasea, whose main Canadian office is in Halifax, has developed the technology in conjunction with DeepSense and Nova Scotia Power as part of the Innovasea-led Ocean Aware project authorized by Canada's Ocean