Softwareontwerp voor automatische voorspelling van discard-overleving (EngD)

Samenvatting (Engelstalig)

One major problem with the Beam Trawl fisheries is the high amount of bycatch. For this reason, the European Union expanded the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) with a Landing Obligation (LO). With the LO, discarding certain species, such as Plaice, Sole and Turbot, is prohibited. An exemption can be given to the LO when high survival for certain species, such as Plaice, Sole and Turbot, is scientifically proven in a survival study. This survival study is time-intensive, man-hour-intensive and costly. This EngD aims to take a first step in automating this survival study with computer vision for three species; Plaice, Sole and Turbot. This EngD designed three components: a camera system, two different Deep Learning (DL) networks for survival prediction and a Graphical User Interface(GUI) to run the models locally. Overall, this EngD took the first step in predicting the survival of flatfish using computer vision technologies, thereby enabling developments to increase the sampling size of the discard survival for scientific survival studies.