On May 29 to June 1 2023, JALA had the opportunity to be at the World Aquaculture 2023 in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Held in Darwin for the first time since 2014, this event welcomed thousands of attendees from around the world to present and exchange ideas surrounding the future of the aquaculture industry with the theme of “Supporting Strength in Aquaculture”. JALA was honored to join the line of academics, industry researchers, market and industry analysts, government officials, policy makers, and industry representatives to discuss this matter.
Aquaculture plays an increasingly important role in meeting the challenge of global food security. JALA was represented by Syauqy Nurul Aziz (JALA’s VP of Product) and Lukman Hakim (JALA’s Data Scientist) in this event. In his presentation, Syauqy shared about “Predicting Disease Occurrence in Shrimp Ponds Using Generative Network and Ensemble Learning”. Disease is one of the biggest challenges in the shrimp cultivation industry. Thus, quick mitigation measures are required to minimize the devastating effects of shrimp disease, one of them being disease monitoring.
However, disease monitoring is still hardly accessible for shrimp farmers due to the high production costs and need for laboratory facilities. To deal with this issue, JALA has developed a system that is capable of analyzing the risk of disease emergence based on physical water quality parameters and feed management. This system focuses on 4 diseases, namely AHPND, WFD, IMNV, and WSSF. The risk analysis involves a method which combines generative AI for quality improvement and ensemble learning which analyzes disease risks.
Meanwhile, Lukman shared about “YOLO V8 for Estimation of Shrimp Body Weight From Images”. He discussed the challenges farmers face in doing regular sampling due to the time-consuming process, despite its important role in estimating SR and biomass. Moreover, farmers tend to only record average shrimp weight without considering existing weight variance, causing poor accuracy in the estimations.
JALA has also developed a system to help farmers conduct sampling more quickly using smartphone cameras. This system also allows farmers to gain more detailed information about the weight distribution of their shrimp, thus enabling them to calculate SR and biomass estimates more accurately.
Being at World Aquaculture 2023 with industry players that share a similar passion in improving global aquaculture was certainly one of the highlights of the year for JALA. We do hope that our presentation gave useful insights for the attendees as we keep striving to build new approaches that aim towards building a better shrimp industry.
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