And the winner is...........

Some really amazing shots were submitted to the aquatic trophyshot contest last year. To quote one of the three judges who independently evaluated each valid submission: “I'm impressed with lots of these pictures. It's only the beginning. There is plenty of potential to see true fish behaviour.” Well said. These underwater images provide a wealth of information - being a very non-invasive way to observe animals in their natural surrounds. Every shared image of an aquatic trophyshot can support a good cause by adding geo-tagged records to biodiversity databases and making existing ID apps more accurate by improving digital image recognition. From chase to charity. I have held talks with the pioneers behind Fishial.ai and am planning to share and upload all submitted images to this global database. “Fishial.ai is building the largest open-source fish species photo library labeled for AI machine learning and spearheads the development of a highly accurate open-source AI model that can identify fish species world wide!” Adding the aquatic trophyshots from this contest to this database is going to be a neat project for a student or an intern. Additional information was collected from each submission which will be interesting to analyse as well. If you are interested or know someone, please message dr snapper.