May 18, 2023 — NOAA Fisheries wants to improve its electronic monitoring of clam harvesting with artificial intelligence, and it hopes to begin collecting imagery to develop the technology this August.
The Northeast Fisheries Science Center is looking for a contractor to install video cameras on a commercial clamming vessel, the ESS Pursuit, develop a machine learning algorithm that can automatically process that video, and produce a large library of images for future artificial intelligence development.