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Digital Camera Could Help Sort Fish, Save Stocks

Posted by Hemos on from the saving-the-world,-one-fish-at-a-time dept.

MountainSplash writes "PlanetArk.com is carrying a story about a new camera that "takes a digital photograph of the catch which is then divided into a grid, allowing a computer to measure the shape and color of each fish in the grid. It needs one tenth of a second and identifies 98 percent of fish correctly." The claim is that fish can then be culled quicker possibly increasing the likelyhood of survival for the incidental catch in the net. Testing is being done by Norway's Institute of Marine Research and Norwegian marine electronics maker Scantrol. Onboard testing has proven highly successful, but underwater attempts still need more work. With everything we have all been seeing computers do the last few years, I personally found this to be one of the more interesting of late."

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  1. Socks by derphilipp · · Score: 5, Funny

    And i first read it would recognize socks - would be a great invention if built-in in laundrys: Never loose a second sock or try to find the one you are missing !

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  2. ya know, if I had any input on this project, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd be forced to add cartoon drawings of 'charlie' from starkist into the 'endangered' database

  3. Use this here by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only the system could help sort trolls on Slashdot. *Sigh*

    1. Re:Use this here by betelgeuse-4 · · Score: 3, Funny

      If only slashdot's moderation system could help sort fish.

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    2. Re:Use this here by Minwee · · Score: 3, Funny

      There already is a system for that. Trolls have their user names in green along with an "estimated troll rating".

      It's right below the title of each post, and left of the date. Can't miss it.

  4. Wouldn't work by Walkiry · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everyone knows socks morph into boxers/briefs (whatever you use) during laundry.

    Think about it, you run out of paired socks but you rarely run out of boxers.

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    1. Re:Wouldn't work by TwistedGreen · · Score: 2, Funny

      You know, it's really not that hard to keep track of your socks...

      All you need to do is wash them in pairs. If you don't split them up, you won't end up with mismatched socks. Because, contrary to popular belief, dryers don't eat socks.

    2. Re:Wouldn't work by DebianRcksLindowsLie · · Score: 2, Funny

      I have never seen a slashdot article on this, so I have a hard time believing it.

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  5. Bah. Fish! by plams · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bah. Fish! How do you sell crap like that?

    Now, if it could crawl the net, and find stuff matching your preferences... hell, think of the oceans of time I would stop wasting looking for quality pr0n and "+5 funny" posts.

  6. fish by capoccia · · Score: 4, Funny

    so we can recognize fish but not faces? this is the same technology that so miserably fails to recognize faces in real life but works so marvelously in marketting demonstrations.

    1. Re:fish by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

      Perhaps Homeland Security can use it to catch terrorist fish? What we really need is software to recognize marketing BS.

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  7. Hrm by IgnorantKnucklehead · · Score: 3, Funny

    The whole thing sounds fishy to me.