AI Scanning helps the Scottish Protection Project to return tidal for mosquito nets | Fishing
Marine fishermen will tell you that it is equivalent to a four -minute mile of capturing and stroke to capture and stroke. Fish can weigh 100kg and extend the length of a dining table.
The first thing to reach when they land on one of the fishermen is their cameras or mobile phones to capture the unique pattern of white spots on the spotted brown back of each skater.
This critical danger of the shark family is the focus of one of the largest citizen-science projects in British waters, based on hundreds of maritime fishermen who campaign for a legally compulsory maritime protection area (MPA) to protect Oban and Mull Oban and Mull, also known as a common skate.
After being broadcast live on the seas in Western Scotland, the Saten uploads a photo to a protection database supported by Anglers artificial intelligence and a new mobile phone application.
Marine Protection Experts and fishermen believe that the species has healed about 20 years after the International Nature Red List Association is recovered due to decimal -year -old excessive hunting as a result of the protection and the sound of the Jurah MPa.
Let’s say its supporters prove the value of maritime protection zones. “MPA and the protection certainly increased its numbers, or he says, 17 years before the early 1990s, in 2009, 17 years before banning the descent of Skate, a pioneer Ronnie Campbell, a pioneering leasing boat captain, who introduced his own volunteer killing policy for the skate.
“They mostly appear in Scotland, but I think they start moving south,” he said. “You can’t return the fish alive; that can never be wrong.”
By sending fisherman data up to 300, it transforms trophy photographs into scientific evidence; Some were trained to scan the identification labels implanted on many skates.
Capture data, including grilled coordinates, are uploaded to a specially designed online database, Known as SkatespotterIt was ruled by the Scottish Marine Sciences Association (Sams) and the Protection Agency Naturescot near Oban.
Sams and Naturalscot have partially turned into AI technology because Skatspotter became the victim of his success.
The database is now holding records of about 2,500 individual fly skates with 5,000 images. Until artificial intelligence screening became available, each photo was personally scanned and paired by researchers. Attempts to prepare for volunteers to help volunteers, because the volunteers confessed, the work was “really boring”.
The database also receives skate identity data from a project in North and Northern Ireland as well as Orkney. And this new AI technique can be applied to other fish protection projects and can greatly increase their efficiency and speeds.
Dr Jane Dodd, a Natural Operationscot operation officer in the project, said: ık We accumulated about 250 photographs that we did not match in Skatspotter, and when we worked, we managed to clean it in two weeks. This was probably sitting there for six months or a year. ”
A new scientific article by Dodd, project partner. Steven Benjamins and two colleagues at the Naval Directorate of the Scottish Government found that MPA helped the species backfire quickly. Captures in different parts of the protected area increased between 54% and 92%.
“The survival rates have greatly healed, ve he said, and claimed that more MPa could be needed to protect skates in other parts of the coastline.
Benjamins said: “Fly skate is big, long -lasting upper predators, part of this sea ecosystem. If they had a similar trophic level with the great terrestrial carnivores. These were the links or wolves we had for centuries, and then it would have suddenly disappeared.
“Instead, there is this tremendous animal, and very few people know something about them, it’s just extraordinary.”
Open seas, Seas Coalition and Umbrella Body Scottish rural rural rural rural rural rural connections, the transferred government in Edinburgh’s ministers to strengthen the MPA network of Scotland.
In an open letter to Scotland’s net zero and environmental secretary Gillian Martin, they cannot bring the government’s promised controls on commercial fishing and accusing them to allow the “continuous deterioration of the coastal environment.
The next Holyrood elections are one year away and gave very few Parliament time, but Martin spokesman said that these new measures are the “greatest priority”. “As we have done since the beginning of this process, we will continue to reach all stakeholders and continue to deal with all stakeholders to support our coastal communities working to enable us to find a balanced approach,” he said.
