Andrew Veary, B.S.
Image Analyst I
B.S. Natural Resource Conservation
West Sacramento, California
Andrew has experience performing freshwater fisheries assessments using common capture techniques, age/growth sampling, diet composition, water quality sampling, and laboratory analysis. He was a fisheries observer in the North Atlantic on both scallop and groundfish commercial fishing vessels, as well as an observer for marine mammals. His training allowed him to observe on vessels that fished using several gear types, including dredge, mid-water/bottom trawl, gillnet, rod and reel, and longline. He spent over 300 days at sea collecting extensive biological data pertaining to targeted catch, bycatch, environmental factors, as well as fishing effort and behavior. He is currently working to develop robust code to help automatically detect, enumerate, and classify organisms from images in order to automate processes and efficiently produce quantitative metrics from fisheries surveys.