One of the smart startups that are part of the Iceland Ocean Cluster, AI company Greenfish has already shown what it can do as its systems predict the abundance and more of commercial marine stocks in the north Atlantic.
Greenfish provides forecasts for the primary pelagic stocks in Icelandic and Norwegian waters, and in the area of international waters extending northwards, known as the Herring Loophole. It has developed models that assess catch expectations, as well as additional data such as average weight, condition and even production yield.
This year Greenfish’s models accurately assessed capelin abundance in Icelandic waters in a set of predictions that colosely mirrored the results of the series of acoustic surveys carried out by the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute in waters to the north and east of Iceland – although the outcome of the surveys wasn’t positive enough for a capelin quota to be allocated for the 2024-25 season.
Now Greenfish has announced a partnership with US operator American Seafoods one of the largest players in fisheries for Alaska pollock and Pacific hake (whiting) in the north-west Pacific region, to bring its skills and prediction capacity to bear on these large-scale fisheries and to streamline the operations of the company’s six factory vessels
Supported by the European Union via NCC HPC&AI and EDIS-IS, and with access to the Julich supercomputer in Germany, Greenfish has also been supported with a Vöxtur Grant from the Rannís Technology Development Fund and Íslandsbanki’s Entrepreneur Grant.
