{"id":23587,"date":"2023-10-18T18:44:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildsalmoncenter.org\/?p=23587"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:55:13","slug":"artificial-intelligence-meet-indigenous-fishing-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsalmoncenter.org\/2023\/10\/18\/artificial-intelligence-meet-indigenous-fishing-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence, Meet Indigenous Fishing Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wildsalmoncenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BC-upper-Koeye-sockeye_9216-Julian-Heavyside.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23681\" style=\"width:450px;height:338px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">On rivers across British Columbia&#8217;s Central Coast, sockeye and other salmonid species remain key drivers of complex ecosystems. Now, with First Nations partners, we&#8217;re fusing cutting-edge A.I. tools with age-old Indigenous fishing technology to better understand salmon runs in real-time. (PC: Julian Heavyside.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Right now, in rivers across British Columbia\u2019s Central Coast, we don\u2019t know how many salmon are actually returning. At least, not until fishing seasons are over<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And yet, fisheries managers still have to make decisions<\/strong>. They have to make forecasts, modeled on data from the past. They have to set harvest targets for commercial and recreational fisheries. And increasingly, they have to make the call on emergency closures, when things start looking grim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn the north and central coast of BC, we&#8217;ve seen really wildly variable returns of salmon over the last decade,\u201d says Dr. Will Atlas, Wild Salmon Center Senior Watershed Scientist. \u201cWith accelerating climate change, every year is unprecedented now. Yet from a fisheries management perspective, we\u2019re still going into most seasons assuming that this year will look like the past.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One answer, Dr. Atlas says, is \u201cSalmon Vision.\u201d<\/strong> Results from this first-of-its-kind technology\u2014developed by WSC in partnership with the Pacific Salmon Foundation, Gitanyow Fisheries Authority, and Skeena Fisheries Commission\u2014were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fmars.2023.1200408\/full\">recently published in <em>Frontiers in Marine Science<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWith accelerating climate change, every year is unprecedented now. Yet from a fisheries management perspective, we\u2019re still going into most seasons assuming that this year will look like the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>WSC Senior Watershed Scientist Dr. Will Atlas<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Artificial Intelligence, Meet Indigenous Weir Fishing Technology\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_qc8xFwVWpY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wild Salmon Center is partnering with First Nations to pilot the Salmon Vision technology. (Olivia Leigh Nowak\/Le Colibri Studio.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wildsalmoncenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Salmon-Vision-CohoAnnotation.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23600\" style=\"width:450px;height:250px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Salmon Vision in action. As a coho salmon passes through the weir&#8217;s video camera box, the computer model annotates sex, health status, and likelihood of wild vs. hatchery origin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Combining artificial intelligence with ancient fishing weir technology<\/strong>, the Salmon Vision computer deep learning model leverages rapidly emerging artificial intelligence tools to identify and count fish species. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The goal is to enable real-time salmon population monitoring for First Nations fisheries managers and beyond<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany of our First Nations partners are telling us that we need to automate fish counting to make informed decisions while salmon are still running,\u201d Dr. Atlas says. \u201cAnd underwater video technology can now help us literally see those salmon return to rivers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe need to automate fish counting to make informed decisions while salmon are still running. And underwater video technology can now help us literally see those salmon return to rivers. \u201d<\/p>\n<cite><em>WSC Senior Watershed Scientist Dr. Will Atlas<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wildsalmoncenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BC-Koeye-weir-box_0012-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23685\" style=\"width:450px;height:574px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Observation station above a Koeye Salmon Vision camera. (PC: Olivia Leigh Nowak\/Le Colibri Studio.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Salmon Vision pilot study annotates more than 500,000 video frames captured at Indigenous-run fish counting weirs on the Kitwanga and Bear Rivers of B.C.\u2019s Central Coast. <strong>Early assessments show promising adeptness in tracking 12 different fish species passing through custom fish-counting boxes at the two weirs<\/strong>, with scores surpassing 90 and 80 percent accuracy for coho and sockeye salmon: two of the principal fish species targeted by First Nations, commercial, and recreational fishers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salmon Vision is also running on a weir operated by the Heiltsuk Nation on the Koeye River. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For First Nations like the Heiltsuk, weirs represent more than a revitalization of an age-old fishing technology<\/strong>. Banned in the late 1800s by Canada\u2019s Department of Fisheries and Oceans as a way to consolidate control of fishery resources, the rebuilding of weirs on rivers like the Koeye is a statement both of First Nations sovereignty and their seat at the table in fisheries management decisions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>The Koeye weir is a modern-day expression of not only Heiltsuk title and rights, but also an avenue for us to be a part of the latest science<\/strong>,\u201d says William Housty, Associate Director of the Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department. \u201cAnd to make decisions not just for the betterment of this creek, but for the whole ecosystem.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wildsalmoncenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/OliviaNowak_DSC00113-scaled-1500x1001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12373\" style=\"width:450px;height:301px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wild Salmon Center Senior Watershed Scientist Dr. Will Atlas (right) with a Cecil Brown, Heiltsuk Nation Integrated Resource Management Department, at an earlier wooden version of the Koeye weir. (PC: Olivia Leigh Nowak\/Le Colibri Studio.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Now, the Salmon Vision team is implementing automated counting on a trial basis in several rivers around the B.C. North and Central Coasts with partner First Nations, with a goal of providing reliable real-time fish count data to these partners by 2024. Ultimately, Dr. Atlas says, this groundbreaking A.I. technology could be in place in rivers across the North Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>We need information on how many salmon are returning everywhere that we&#8217;re fishing for salmon<\/strong>,\u201d Dr. Atlas says. \u201cYou can&#8217;t tell me with a straight face that you&#8217;re having a sustainable fishery if you don&#8217;t know how many fish you have coming back. And that&#8217;s a problem right around the Pacific Rim.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s a problem with a promising solution\u2014one that\u2019s just now coming into focus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cYou can&#8217;t tell me with a straight face that you&#8217;re having a sustainable fishery if you don&#8217;t know how many fish you have coming back. 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