Fenua FINdex: Every Fin Tells a Story

Why it surfaced

Fenua FINdex connects a 928-shark research catalogue, more than a decade of monitoring in Mo'orea, and photographs submitted by divers, snorkellers, guides, and other ocean users. Its system shortlists matches from fin patterns, while trained researchers make the final call—a concrete citizen-science loop with an online portal still in development.

An AI-assisted photo-identification project tracking individual blacktip reef sharks across the lagoons of French Polynesia.