Fish-counting A.I. developed in N.S. could help avert fish kills at hydro dams

Fish-counting A.I. developed in N.S. could help avert fish kills at hydro dams

Innovasea says it has successfully developed technology to instantaneously detect and count fish

The prototype was field tested this spring at a Nova Scotia Power hydro dam outside Kentville, N.S., where it counted nearly 900,000 fish during an upstream migration of gaspereau — a species of herring.

The aquatic technology company reports the artificial intelligence system was 95 per cent accurate when compared with manual counting done to verify results.

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