SBIR Phase I: Adapting uncrewed aquaculture management to control sea lamprey and to protect wild salmonid fisheries of the Great Lakes

SBIR 第一阶段：采用无人水产养殖管理来控制七鳃鳗并保护五大湖的野生鲑鱼渔业

• 批准号: 2212614
• 负责人: Robert Huber
• 金额: $ 25.6万
• 依托单位: RADMANTIS LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2212614&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Adapting; uncrewed; aquaculture

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project focuses on improved methods for detecting and suppressing sea lampreys in the Great Lakes, a pest species that currently requires relentless, sustained, and costly control efforts at ecosystem scale. The project initiates the development of small, relocatable, field-deployed devices, capable of performing a range of assessment and selective control functions. Success in this effort will introduce an important new tool to bolster environmental health outcomes at an ecosystem level, and benefit commercial fisheries estimated at $7B annually. By replacing chemical and manual control of exotic invaders, the project contributes to the preservation of ecosystem integrity and function, biodiversity, and environmental quality of the Great Lakes, a vital natural resource providing water security for more than 35 million people in the region. With worldwide damage from aquatic invaders exceeding $300 billion annually, innovations driving advances in ecosystem protection and restoration will have wide appeal and application wherever habitats require protection. Broadening the available tool set empowers managers and local communities to act against exotic invaders at the level where causes and consequences are most acutely felt.This project performs a feasibility study of existing technologies from aquaculture workflows for adaptation to the uncrewed control of sea lampreys in the field. The essential features of such a device are inherently similar to recently emerged solutions for automated fish management in robotic aquaculture systems. Existing models for detection and classification are expected to transfer well to a class as morphologically distinct as lampreys. The primary challenges to this project most likely arise from the unique biology and sensory ecology of a species whose responses to the physical device used here are completely unknown. A set of artificial stream experiments aims to entrain lampreys into devices placed into their path. How might lamprey react to a device optimized for the specific needs of imaging, classification, and selective removal? Informed by detailed knowledge of lamprey chemosensory ecology, the work also examines the efficacy of pheromonal cues for channeling lamprey movement through the device.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该小企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力侧重于改进检测和抑制五大湖七鳃鳗的方法，这种害虫物种目前需要在生态系统规模上进行不懈、持续和昂贵的控制努力。该项目启动了小型、可重新定位、现场部署设备的开发，能够执行一系列评估和选择性控制功能。这项工作的成功将推出一个重要的新工具，以促进生态系统层面的环境健康成果，并为商业渔业带来每年约 70 亿美元的收益。通过取代对外来入侵者的化学和人工控制，该项目有助于保护五大湖的生态系统完整性和功能、生物多样性和环境质量，五大湖是为该地区超过 3500 万人提供水安全的重要自然资源。全球水生入侵者每年造成的损失超过 3000 亿美元，推动生态系统保护和恢复进步的创新将在任何需要保护栖息地的地方具有广泛的吸引力和应用。扩大可用的工具集使管理人员和当地社区能够在最能敏锐地感受到原因和后果的层面上采取行动对抗外来入侵者。该项目对水产养殖工作流程中的现有技术进行了可行性研究，以适应对海七鳃鳗的无人控制。场地。这种设备的基本特征本质上与最近出现的机器人水产养殖系统中自动化鱼类管理解决方案相似。现有的检测和分类模型有望很好地转移到像七鳃鳗这样形态独特的类别。该项目的主要挑战很可能来自于一个物种独特的生物学和感官生态学，该物种对此处使用的物理设备的反应完全未知。一组人工流实验旨在将七鳃鳗引入放置在其路径上的装置中。七鳃鳗会对针对成像、分类和选择性去除的特定需求而优化的设备有何反应？这项工作以七鳃鳗化学感应生态学的详细知识为基础，还研究了通过该设备引导七鳃鳗运动的信息素线索的功效。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查进行评估，被认为值得支持标准。