The Wetland Ecosystems Research Lab at McMaster University is attempting to modernize fish surveying in Great Lakes coastal wetlands, specifically Georgian Bay, Ontario. We need your sleuthing skills to comb through video footage and spot the fish hidden in the scene! Every one of you who decides to help with this project will be an invaluable member of the team and to our fish friends.

 

Wetlands are biodiversity hotspots, and the home for many fish species, including gamefish, such as bass, perch, and muskie/pike babies! As a volunteer your help in classifying this project's footage is two-fold; you will aid our lab in assessing the fish community of coastal wetlands in Georgian Bay now, and further validate the use of a new fish survey method that is hopefully cheaper, more accessible, faster, and less harmful to the fish researchers want to study.

 

You may be thinking, it's the 21st century, surely a computer could do this work? The short answer is...it's complicated.

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