What If We Could Help Marine Conservation by Listening to Fish?
Our marine bioacoustic technologies are making it possible to:
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Classify individual fish sounds
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Create an extensive fish sound library
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Improve underwater recording technologies
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Use AI to provide insights on key marine habitats and species
What Is FishEye Collaborative?
FishEye Collaborative is an emerging conservation technology non-profit specializing in marine conservation bioacoustics. In collaboration with other organizations, we do research and development on non-invasive listening technologies that can help evaluate and protect ocean habitats. Our collaborators include the Cornell University Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the FORTH Institute, and the Curaçao Sea Aquarium and Substation.
Did You Know That Over 80% of Fish Species Likely Make Sounds?
Sound is vital to many animals’ communication, and for underwater animals like fish it is even more important. When we know the sounds specific species make, we can use listening as a conservation tool. Are you curious about how fish make sounds and what they are communicating? You can find out about that and more on the field of marine conservation bioacoustics in our Learning Hub.
How Can You Tell Which Fish Is Making Which Sound?
We are creating a new technique using 360° video and audio visualizations to identify which fish species make which sounds. Once we identify a sonorous fish species and collect enough recordings, we can train AI systems to recognize these sounds in other underwater recordings. Our innovative approach would allow people to gain useful data from long series of recordings with inexpensive hydrophones (underwater microphones). This is a significant improvement over other methods of monitoring fish populations.
Want To Delve into Our Science? Here’s Our Research.
FishEye Collaborative’s research focuses on developing methods, tools, and a sound library to enable bioacoustics for a wider range of marine habitats and species.
See more of our team members’ marine conservation bioacoustics research
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What Is FishEye Collaborative Doing in the Field?
Partnering with local organizations, we thrive on the adventure that marine fieldwork brings.
In collaboration with Cornell University Lisa K Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, we deploy our underwater passive-acoustic cameras to capture details of underwater soundscapes better than ever before. We've pushed boundaries by having technical rebreather divers take our systems beyond the reach of traditional scuba. Using the submersible from Substation Curaçao, we are venturing even deeper, driven by our passion for scientific discovery and the need to continuously improve our designs.
Currently, working with the substation and The Smithsonian Deep Reef Observation Project, we are recording sounds all the way to depths of 1,000 feet. These PAM devices, placed using a submersible, have been collecting invaluable data since 2022, unveiling mysteries of deep reefs.
Every dive, deployment, and discovery reaffirms our commitment to marine protection, driving our mission to develop new conservation technologies to safeguard our oceans.
What’s Our Mission?
We are developing better tools and techniques for decision-makers to manage critical natural resources in marine protected areas and nearshore habitats like coral reefs. To do this, we are advancing passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) technologies to help regulators discover biodiversity hotspots, breeding grounds, and areas of fish abundance.
Few Fish Sounds Have Been Verified–Here’s How We’re Solving The Puzzle
Until recently, scientists had documented fewer than 5% of fish sounds from an estimated 20,000 species—and few of these are natural sounds in natural settings. Fewer still are available to researchers and conservationists. With our UPAC-360 technology, we have begun building an open species ID library that we are working to grow into a global resource.