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Scottish Ace Aquatec* has announced several significant developments across its AI technology suite. The company has successfully brought five species specific modules and new health and harvest monitoring tools for its A-Biomass AI powered underwater camera to market since launch. These specially trained modules have been designed for use with Atlantic salmon, trout, yellowtail, chinook salmon and char.
“The developments in Ace Aquatec’s AI offering for fish farmers demonstrate the breadth of opportunity across the globe to harness technology that not only improves efficiency across operations but also brings welfare of farmed fish to the highest standards,’’ said Nathan Pyne-Carter, chief executive officer of Ace Aquatec, in a press release.
Developed with specific markets in mind, the new modules have already yielded impressive results for clients according to the company:
- The trout module was successfully tested in Scotland where it achieved an impressive 98 percent accuracy against harvest results
- The yellowtail module was deployed in Australia in low-light conditions and achieved accuracy levels of 98 percent within a few days of deployment
- In New Zealand, the module for chinook salmon was released last year and has consistently achieved 99 percent accuracy
- Atlantic salmon customers in UK and Chile also see consistent results within 1-2 percent points from harvest.
Ace Aquatec’s new health module is based upon LAKSVEL’s welfare indicators - a standardised, operational welfare monitoring protocol for Atlantic salmon held in sea cages. The AI camera identifies and records welfare indicators, providing a range of information on fish conditions and externally observable health status such as wounds and maturation, enabling farmers to detect and treat disease at an early stage meaning fewer instances of disease and overall improvements in fish health.
“Ace Aquatec was one of the first in the industry to bring an AI camera to market a decade ago and have achieved sustained development over the years with industry partners to create one of the most sophisticated and affordable systems in the market”
Completing the raft of new developments, Ace Aquatec has also successfully deployed its proprietary A-Harvestcam module at harvesting sites in Scotland. This innovation allows real-time average weight, distribution of fish count and weight classes measurements at harvest. This module will also feature a more advanced graded harvest estimator, allowing farmers to digitally grade their fish population based on known or accepted split weights, providing further accuracy to harvest predictions.
*Ace Aquatech, like Hatch, is part of Aqua-Spark's investment portfolio, but The Fish Site retains editorial independence.
