In a game of scientific telephone, if you find the food, you find the whales--and sound the alarm. North Atlantic right whales sometimes gather at Jeffrey's Ledge, a 62-mile-long underwater ridge about 25 miles off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It was a cold and windy week last January, when a group of Maine lobstermen couldn't haul in their traps from Jeffrey's Ledge. The reason why surprised everyone.

These magnificent rays are at risk of disappearing due to targeted fishing, being caught as bycatch, and climate change. Scientists at the research collaboration Mobula Conservation are teaming up with artisanal and industrial fishermen to protect them. Also known as "Devil Rays," mobulas are elasmobranchs: a subclass of fish--including sharks, skates, and sawfish--that are distinguished by having skeletons primarily made from cartilage. More than a third of the species in this group are threatened with extinction. Of the nine species of mobulas, seven are endangered and two are vulnerable according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

In recent years, the global and Indian government efforts in monitoring and collecting data related to the fisheries industry have witnessed significant advancements. Despite this wealth of data, there exists an untapped potential for leveraging artificial intelligence based technological systems to benefit Indian fishermen in coastal areas. To fill this void in the Indian technology ecosystem, the authors introduce Jal Anveshak. This is an application framework written in Dart and Flutter that uses a Llama 2 based Large Language Model fine-tuned on pre-processed and augmented government data related to fishing yield and availability. Its main purpose is to help Indian fishermen safely get the maximum yield of fish from coastal areas and to resolve their fishing related queries in multilingual and multimodal ways.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Bad weather Tuesday was hampering the search for two men who went over a waterfall while fishing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota over the weekend. Nate Skelton told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that the cloud cover was too low for aerial surveillance and up to 2 inches of rain was anticipated, so the next two days were not promising. Skelton said a search crew was camping on site, waiting for conditions to improve in the remote area, about 100 miles north of Duluth.

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To do that, the nonprofit is implementing new technology like better video review platforms, better cameras on boats, and increased artificial intelligence, which CEO Mark Hager said is the most exciting. New England Marine Monitoring, in partnership with the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and Vesper, is developing artificial intelligence for fishermen. The goal is to make commercial fishing both economically and ecologically better. Typically, there are human observers on a boat to be sure the fishermen are following federal guidelines, but this technology could change that. "The idea is to ultimately shift from having at-sea human observers," Blaine Grimes of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute said.

It's always cool to see lionfish while snorkeling or scuba diving. They're spectacular-looking, and because they're covered in flamboyant spines, they're usually secure enough in their invincibility that they'll mostly just sit there and let you get close to them. Lionfish don't make for very good oceanic neighbors, though, and in places where they're an invasive species and have few native predators (like most of the Atlantic coast of the United States), they do their best to eat anything that moves while breeding almost continuously. A single lionfish per reef reduced young juvenile fish populations by 79 percent in only a five-week period. Many species were affected, including cardinalfish, parrotfish, damselfish, and others.

We provide a formal definition of blameworthiness in settings where multiple agents can collaborate to avoid a negative outcome. We first provide a method for ascribing blameworthiness to groups relative to an epistemic state (a distribution over causal models that describe how the outcome might arise). We then show how we can go from an ascription of blameworthiness for groups to an ascription of blameworthiness for individuals using a standard notion from cooperative game theory, the Shapley value. We believe that getting a good notion of blameworthiness in a group setting will be critical for designing autonomous agents that behave in a moral manner.

Researchers using artificial intelligence and "big data" plan to develop new algorithms that they say will enable them to identify, locate – and eventually predict – crimes committed in the world's oceans, from illegal fishing off the Patagonia shelf to drug smuggling in Central America to slave labor and human trafficking in the Indian Ocean. The perpetrators of these illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) activities collectively use vessels called "the dark fleet," not just because of their criminal activity, but because they try to hide their location by turning off their GPS tracking systems and navigating between legally operating and visible boats. "IUUs include all kinds of terrible things," said James Watson, a marine scientist expert at Oregon State University, and a principal investigator on the project. "We came into this thinking primarily about illegal fishing, but that turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg. It is much, much bigger."

The high seas are probably the most lawless place left on Earth. They're a portal back in time to the way the world looked for most of our history: fierce and open competition for resources and contested territories. Pirating continues to be a way to make a living. It's not a complete free-for-all--most countries require registration of fishing vessels and enforce environmental protocols. Cooperative agreements between countries oversee fisheries in international waters.