May 12, 2026 — New research on automated bycatch monitoring in Alaska pollock trawls concludes that developing accurate tracking methods is only an initial step toward potential applications.
Use of multi-object tracking (MOT) is currently limited by the challenges of collecting and automatically annotating footage of dynamic marine environments, according to research contracted by the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and National Marine Fisheries Service and published recently in Elsevier, a major Dutch academic journal.