Creative Salmon partners with Innovasea on biomass estimation using AI-enabled BiomassPro

Creative Salmon is using Innovasea’s BiomassPro technology to provide real-time biomass estimations for its salmon farming operations.

Tofino, British Columbia, Canada-based Creative Salmon farms organic king salmon around Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The selection follows a six-month pilot program, which showed Innovasea’s solution was 99.7 percent accurate when compared against actual harvest data.

“BiomassPro has performed incredibly well for Creative Salmon in providing spot-on biomass estimations over the last 12 months,” Innovasea Vice President of Engineering Rafael Cordero said. “The numbers they’ve seen from their actual harvests are almost identical to what BiomassPro projected. That’s invaluable for a fish farm in terms of tracking growth curves, planning feeding operations and knowing the ideal time to harvest.” 

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based Innovasea said BiomassPro uses artificial intelligence to estimate the size and weight of aquaculture fish stocks in real time, allowing companies to optimize production and resource planning.

“Innovasea has greatly improved our ability to forecast the size of our fish and adjust our operations as needed,” Creative Salmon Biology Manager Barb Cannon said. “BiomassPro has increased our sample sizes, improved estimation accuracy, improved efficiency, and allowed data to be available in an online platform so reports can be done remotely and at any time."

BiomassPro is now in full commercial use at Creative Salmon’s Vancouver Island-based farms. The company also uses Innovasea’s Realfish Pro to monitor and manage its aquaculture operations.

BiomassPro works with five species: yellowtail, red snapper, king salmon, cobia, and totoaba. A sixth species, Atlantic salmon, is expected to be added to the system later this year.

Last month, Innovasea debuted another aquaculture technology: FlowFeeder. The company claims the device, which delivers fish feed below the surface of the water, is gentler and less damaging than traditional air-blown feeding systems.

“FlowFeeder provides a better way to feed fish because it gets more pellets directly into the pen underwater,” Innovasea Senior Vice President Langley Gace said. “Rather than blowing feed pellets onto the surface above the fish pen where they can drift away, FlowFeeder delivers the feed at the depths where fish prefer to congregate. That means less waste and better feed conversion ratios – one of the keys to profitability at any fish farm.”

Photo courtesy of Innovasea