The Significance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Fishing Crafts and Gears
Arghya Mandal, Mainak Banerjee and Apurba Ratan Ghosh
2025/01/20
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14698633
ABSTRACT
The fishing business has been greatly impacted by artificial intelligence (AI), which has increased production, sustainability, and efficiency. AI enables ships to collect and analyse enormous volumes of data on things like water temperature, salinity, fish behaviour, and ocean currents by combining sensors, cameras, and machine learning algorithms. Increased catch rates and lower operating expenses result from fishermen using this data-driven method to make well-informed decisions about the best times and places to fish. Additionally, AI has proven crucial in the development of smart fishing gear, lowering bycatch, and lessening the negative environmental effects of fishing. AI-based methods also help with stock availability, population dynamics, fish migration patterns, and resource management optimisation. This makes it possible for fishermen to modify their tactics, set sustainable quotas, and refrain from overfishing, all of which help to preserve fish stocks over the long run and guarantee the sustainability of the fishing sector for coming generations. AI technology has the potential to completely transform the fishing sector as it develops further.
AUTHOR AFFILIATIONS
1 SACT, Mankar College, Mankar, West Bengal, India, 713144
2 Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, RKDF University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
3 Department of Environmental Science, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, Golapbag, Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, India, 713104
CITATION
Mandal A, Banerjee M and Ghosh AR (2025) The Significance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Fishing Crafts and Gears. Environmental Science Archives 4(1): 44-58.
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