AI classifies fish as male or female based on a comprehensive training set of images.
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The Global Seafood Alliance encourages the industry to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify gender in aquaculture operations more quickly and effectively.
Now, experts view ultrasound images to spot telltale sex characteristics (like gonads) and sort fish. This task gets more difficult when fish are immature as tiny smolts are the most difficult to classify.
On the other hand, AI classifies fish as male or female based on a comprehensive training set of images of fish with and without gonads.
For this reason, Econexus is developing an AI-based sexing of salmonids from 25 grams using artificial intelligence which can identify up to 200,000 pre-smolts per day.
Also, the software provider Aquaticode has launched the SORTpro tool which scans, classifies, and sorts 20-100g smolt based on criteria such as gender. Powered by AI, it utilizes neural networks that mimic the structure and function of the human brain, learning from examples.
In a previous interview with WeAreAquaculture, Aquaticode's CEO, Stian Rognlid, said that while the aquaculture industry has come a long way, there is still a long way to go, noting the important role that AI will play in that process.