Automatic Size and Weight Measurements of Fish

Summary

Fish stock assessment is important to prevent overfishing. One element in the monitoring chain is to weigh the amount of fish caught by a fishing vessel. However, determining the size and weight of individual fish would give scientists, policy enforcers and fishermen much more detailed information, e.g. the number of juvenile fish in a catch, the size and weight distribution within a catch. As it is impractical to manually measure and weigh individual fish, we would like to combine an electronic scale with a camera and machine vision to determine weight, length and width of individual fishes automatically. A device which would be useful on an industrial scale is outside the scope of this challenge, however, we propose to develop a much smaller and simpler device which can be used by scientists during field work, makingmeasurements much quicker and more reliable.

The Team

Silvia Lucato Hadeler Addenbrooke's Hospital, sl787@cam.ac.uk,
Silvia is a fisheries scientist with extensive expertise in fish stock modeling and marine field work. She is also a data analyst at Addenbrooke's Hospital. Silvia will specify the requirements of the device and write the image analysis software.

Oliver Hadeler Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, oh209@cam.ac.uk  Oliver is a physicist and engineer with expertise in electronics, sensors and open source microcontrollers. He will be responsible for the hardware aspects of the project.

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Project Outputs

Project Report

Project report and documentation on Github

Project Proposal

Original proposal and application

Project Resources

Hardware Schematics

Bill of Materials

Software Code