Greenland

Case study Lead: DTU Aqua​

List of CS partners: Royal Greenland​

External collaborators: Greenlands Nature Institute

The Industry sees an increasing cod stock in Greenlandic waters​. No dedicated cod survey has been made in Greenlandic waters​, more detailed distribution and size structure data for cod is needed​. Can we collect this data on fishing vessels using trawl cameras and AI?

Key features and challenges​

Challenges: Identify vessel, installing in-trawl camera system, collect image data, handle high densities of cod​.

Main activities and solutions​

  1. identify vessel​
  2. install camera system​
  3. collect image data (cruise) ​
  4. develop detector​
  5. develop a tracker​
  6. estimate body length​
  7. build interface for onboard data presentation

The CS will develop:​

  1. Real-time DSS for the vesseloperator to optimise catchefficiency, reduce catch ofunwanted species/sizes and fuelconsumption, and ​
  2. Software describing and geo-reference density and sizestructure of cod to support​ fisheries monitoring .