AI-enabled fish gate filters invasive salmon out of Norwegian waterways

AI-enabled fish gate filters invasive salmon out of Norwegian waterways

Source: newatlas

8/26/2022

Credit: Huawei

After being introduced to Russia's White Sea in the 1950s, non-native Pacific salmon have since spread along Norway's coastline and into its rivers. In an effort to control their numbers, an AI-enabled fish-identifying gate has recently been installed on a Norwegian river.

Besides introducing new diseases to native Atlantic salmon, the invasive Pacific salmon also have a faster reproductive cycle. This means that as their numbers have more quickly increased, they've start outcompeting Atlantic salmon for food and spawning grounds. As a result, the Pacific salmon population is rapidly increasing, while the Atlantic salmon population is declining.