Like Shazam, but for Fish

Like Shazam, but for Fish

Source: hakaimagazine

6/7/2016

You’re in a crowded fish market and, hovering your phone over a fillet, you’re instantaneously informed of its species—just as Shazam recognizes an elusive tune on the radio. In the future, this technique—called infrared spectrometry—could help track fish fraud before it goes too far.

Fish are experiencing a global identity crisis: on every continent save Antarctica, fishmongers have been found selling their catches under the guise of different species. Purposefully substituting less expensive species for pricier fare creates a profit for some, but comes at huge cost to the sea: fish fraud makes it harder to monitor fish stocks, placing threatened species at risk. Mislabeled sales also create a convenient cover for the opportunistic sale of illegally caught seafood.

But what if this duplicitous activity could be revealed by anyone, anywhere—from the harbor to the marketplace? Two London-based developers, Yassine Santissi and Sam Mbale, have invented an infrared fish-scanning device called Fishazam that could one day allow just that. Santissi and Mbale’s device uses a mobile phone and a portable infrared spectrometer to reveal signature cues in a fish’s molecular composition, giving a quick test of its authenticity.

Santissi and Mbale built the Fishazam prototype in April at the Fishackathon, an annual competition run by the US Department of State. The global challenge brings together technologists and coders to build tools to address the sustainability issues facing the fishing industry.

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