NorwayAgriculture and food production2019–2025Cermaq Norway
iFarm: AI-based recognition and monitoring of individual salmon
Norway's fisheries directorate ruled in January 2025 that Cermaq's iFarm project met all its criteria, clearing four development licences for conversion
Problem
Salmon farms manage fish as a stock, so lice and disease are found late and treatment is applied to whole pens. Cermaq wanted to follow each fish through its life.
Approach
Cermaq worked with BioSort on iFarm and received four development licences from the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries in 2019. Sensor chambers with computer vision recognize each salmon and record its count, size, sea lice and possible signs of disease. Four iFarm systems were built, the latest in Vesterålen. On January 3, 2025, the directorate said the project had met all measurement criteria, so the licences could become regular licences for Nordland.
Results
Takeaway
The directorate called the recognition and data collection technology successful, while Cermaq said further commercialization was still ahead.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Agriculture and food production
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovationProduct and service innovation
- AI technology
- Computer visionPredictive analytics and ML
- Adoption
- Co-developed with a partner
- Evidence
- Regulator, audit or court
Sources
Source summaries
The Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries decided on January 3, 2025 that iFarm met all measurement criteria for its four development licences. Sensor chambers record count, size, lice and disease signs for each fish. Cermaq's regional director said further commercialization was still ahead. The directorate had rejected Mowi's 36-permit application in October 2024.
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