SciFish’s Proposal
Using funding form the NSF build and test an automated onboard fish cataloging system using COTS Hardware and Software that will:
- Assist commercial fishery observers with their monitoring and assessment tasks at sea
- Provide detailed unbiased species counts to manage the Community Development Quota (CDQ) program in Western Alaska
- Provide new detailed information on the ecological health of each species to assist in fisheries management
- Provide detailed information on fish morphometrics that will be of value to researchers in several academic areas, such as fish population studies and fish evolution