Fish counting "used to be completed by DPIR [Department of Primary Industry and Resources] scientists watching hours of underwater footage filmed on reefs around Darwin... The scientists could not enter the water themselves, thanks to saltwater crocodiles and sharks not being completely onside with the idea of humans entering water."
"The Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry and Resources (DPIR) has turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up its fish-counting exercises. Developed with Microsoft and built on Azure Cognitive Service, the open-source solution is published on GitHub, and had its first iteration running in a month. DPIR said the solution has already shown that the local golden snapper and black jewfish are overfished, and that the solution could be applied elsewhere across the territory."
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Underwater footage of fish and other aquatic life
The system now "can now identify fish with a 95 to 99 percent success rate" after being "widely deployed within six months".