An on-demand video of “Can AI Automate and Improve Quality and Food Safety Inspection in Seafood?” is available free for SeafoodSource Premium members and for USD 350 (EUR 308) to non-members through the Complete Digital Ticket: Seafood Expo North America 2025.
Featuring ThisFish Inc. CEO Eric Enno Tamm, the presentation explored how AI tools could be leveraged in seafood processing to improve food safety and other quality inspections. The session was advertised with the following description:
There is a lot of visual inspection for quality and food safety in the seafood industry. Whether its raw material, finished product, packaging, or labelling, visual inspection happens throughout the supply chain. Inspection is typically done through random sampling using human sensory evaluation. It’s labor intensive and open to human bias and error. Does AI – especially machine or computer vision technology – offer a solution to automate, standardize and improve quality and food safety inspection?
In the session, Tamm offers an overview of the kinds of computer vision technology that are currently being used in seafood inspection and explores case studies of different applications, including fresh, canned, frozen, and packaged seafood products. He also explores the ethical and legal implications of AI usage in the sector, especially in terms of data sharing, and asks how the technology might reduce labor costs.
The 2025 Seafood Expo North America, which took place 15 to 17 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., featured a comprehensive conference program of live panel events focusing on topics chosen to be of vital interest to the seafood industry.
The more than 25 individual presentations from SENA featured exclusive information and insight from seafood industry experts on a range of topics, including diversity in the seafood industry and how the sector can best navigate current economic, energy, and trade policies.
