Saving Indonesia's Fish Supply

In the $130 billion global seafood market, snapper and grouper are best sellers, and Indonesia is the top producer of these fish worldwide. These tasty fish are enjoyed sautéed as fillets and in fish sandwiches. But their growing popularity is dwindling Indonesia’s supply.

Why Restaurant Demand For Smaller Fish Fillets Is Bad News For Oceans

Bigger isn't necessarily better when it comes to catching, selling and eating fish. For certain snappers, in fact, a market preference for plate-size whole fillets is driving fishermen to target smaller fish. For some wild fish populations, this is a recipe for collapse.

We Can Have Oceans Teeming with Fish with FishFace Technology

Traditional methods of gathering fisheries data can take as long as one or two years, costing time and money that many imperiled global fisheries don’t have.
Enter FishFace, a new application under development by The Nature Conservancy in partnership with Refind Technologies. Similar to facial recognition software used to identify people, FishFace uses artificial intelligence to learn to recognize fish species in photographs