What do other sectors do? Commercial fisherman pay for the service of having Archipelago oversee and facilitate catch landing data either by paper and pen log books, or digital recording via internet tabulation.($400.log book+fisherman lic.+plus boat lic/lease) They must also verbally hale all landings during fishing opportunities.
What does this have to do with sportfishing? Simply an example of a private sector service that analyzes catch record data for the commercial sector and tabulates it for DFO. Oh, so we wasted last season's sport data when we recycled it at the time of purchase for the new season, all while being logged into our DFO sport fishing lic. account where we could have easily entered our catch data for the previous year or at minimum uploaded a scanned copy of it for further analysis by DFO.
Wait, but that is just useless data anyway! Or is it? For decades the sportfishing sector has destroyed mountains of invaluable catch record data on behalf of DFO. Yep, with our help.
The Problem: The ability to make effective, compliant decisions without wasting time and money is incredibly difficult. Too often, the solution is hiring more people and adding workflows to your decision-making process. This drives up complexity, cost, and time.
The Solution: The solution is using AI technology for better decision workflow through speed and efficiency. AI is not new, although the acronym or moniker is. Artificial Intelligence has been used in many industries for a very long time. It wasn't until within the recent past that it can now be accomplished easily in affordable manor.
- AI can analyze any document of any size and identify elements that it's been specifically trained to look for.
- AI is able to present that information in a visually rich environment such as a heat map or Venn diagram.
- AI gets smarter the more it's used. As you use the system, it learns what it's gotten correct and incorrect and that then improves its accuracy over time.
- AI is able to read and even understand a broad spectrum from ancient to modern type or handwritten documents.
No longer is artificial intelligence the stuff of books and movies. It’s already part of our everyday lives. Now, with machine learning and contextual technology, AI is evolving to the next level. Why the Gov't of Canada and DFO are stalling on this impervious area of concern is totally beyond me...