Field Visit - UdithaGunaratne/Smart-Fish-Counting-System GitHub Wiki
Date :-20th Sep 2018
Location :- Horana fish breeding farm
Types of fish they exported :- export_types.jpg
In the industry the current fish counting and gender sorting method used is the traditional method of counting by hand. Which is very tedious and error prone method which highly depends on the person counting. Not to mention the time taken for this process is very long. As the fish exporting quantity could vary to high as 45000 fish per batch this is a very long and troublesome process. Fish are farmed in 5 x 5 cement ponds.
Fish Gender Sorting
Fish gender sorting is done by hand. Person Sitting with three buckets each for,
- Female Fish [ bkt1 ]
- Male fish [ bkt2 ]
- Fish to be sorted (Male and Female) [ bkt3 ]
Person Sitting will take a fish from the bkt3 to a fish net and put it to a small transparent cup and look for a distinct black dot in the fish body which belongs to Male fish. Using that as his base he will sort the fish into the buckets. Which is very messy with lots flows.As an example it heavily depends on the persons condition who does this process which will very quickly tired the persons eyes who focus for a little dot in the fishes body.
Related video name:- FishGendersorting.mp4 (related 0-20 sec)
Fish Counting
Fish counting is also done by hand. In fish counting person counting uses his eye sight to guess the no of fish. He uses a cup to collect few fish and count by looking at it. Person keeps an empty cup near him to mark 100. He will put a stone into the cup when he counts to 100.