I agree that there is an opportunity here for getting more calories per fish (and especially per input of feed, which is really what decades of chicken optimization are about). But the consequences of these changes for chicken welfare have been disastrous [0] and we're seeing a concerted effort to move to higher-welfare breeds (though still more efficient than ancestral breeds). Likewise, intensive salmon farming has led to widespread '“environmental dewilding,” or the process of modifying natural water bodies with artificial infrastructure — in this case, fish farm pens and cages — and polluting them' [1]. It sounds like there are lots of ways in which using more robots can make monitoring less-invasive, and therefore less stressful for fish. I certainly hope to see those attributes, rather than the potentially disastrous ones, emphasized as you move forward.

[0] https://www.ciwf.org/programmes/better-chicken/

[1] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/468348/atlantic-salmon-fa...

I think there is such an incredible opportunity in the sector, and it probably looks a lot like any of the other sectors that have been augmented by data - gather giant piles of any measurable detail, and hope that after filtering you see a pattern that doesn't depend on your production environment running as many sensors ( or tensors ).

Last Thought: Fish transfer pumps are not only a thing, but one of the best ways to have the whole pond population march past your camera in a lighting environment where you have more control.

https://www.miprcorp.com/fish-pumping/ - just one example with decent pictures

Even for marketing puffery, "only" seems reductive when most resource usage seems specific to a few animal products like cows and lamb: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Have you had any issues with turbidity so far?

I wonder how do you manage data labeling? Do you outsource it by using data label vendors or do you have something in-house?

Curious — how many labeled fish images did you need before the quantized models stopped falling apart in production?

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