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Play our ocean science observation game where volunteers help analyse ONC’s deep-sea videos.

Digital Fishers is a crowd-sourced, ocean science observation game in which volunteers help analyze deep-sea videos—60 seconds at a time (no experience required!) By playing Digital Fishers you’ll help researchers gather data from video and unveil the mechanisms shaping the animal communities inhabiting the deep.

Digital Fishers was developed by ONC together with the University of Victoria’s Centre for Global Studies (CfGS) and funded by CANARIE.

We need your help for scientific observations.

Our archives contain thousands of hours of video footage recorded during installation dives and from underwater cameras installed across our subsea network. All this video needs to be studied, but our software has not (yet) become sophisticated enough to automatically identify a wide variety of animals and other features. It’s a daunting task for scientists to watch so much footage and describe what they see—but this is where you can help.

By playing Digital Fishers you can help scientists answer fundamental questions such as:

  • What environmental factors influence the distribution of species in the deep?
  • What is the biodiversity associated with deep-sea environments?
  • How do species interact with each other and with their environment?

Contact information
For questions regarding Digital Fishers, or to request a new campaign or discuss using Digital Fishers in your classroom, please contact Dr. Dave Riddell, Post-Secondary Education Coordinator

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Ocean-Climate Building University of Victoria
#100, 2474 Arbutus Road, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8N 1V8
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Marine Technology Centre University of Victoria
#106, 9865 West Saanich Road, North Saanich, BC, Canada, V8L 5Y8
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