1 · Spot
Spot the species in 5 seconds
Each clip is a short underwater snippet. Pick the species from a small set of likely candidates: local marine life curated by PEBL ecologists.
Identify species from real underwater footage and help build a shared marine observation record.
Short clips from real PEBL deployments. Pick the species, see the reference ID, compare with the community, and earn points for consecutive days.
Free, no card required. Browse the archive or view the leaderboard.
Spot the species
Bideford Bay, North Devon, UK
Scooter
Pollack
Saithe
Bib
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2 · Compare
Compare with the reference ID
See the reference identification where one exists, how the wider community guessed, and an ecological-likelihood breakdown for the site and season. Clips without a reference are worth more.
3 · Streak
Build a streak
Identify clips on consecutive days to grow a streak. Get on the leaderboard once you've submitted 10 identifications.
The catalogue
What you'll find down there
Dragonet© Xavier Rufray · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Sprat© Andy Jordan · some rights reserved (CC BY) 
Ballan wrasse© galargus · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Common Limpet© Christophe Quintin · CC BY-NC via iNaturalist 
Fifteen-spined stickleback© Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC via iNaturalist 
Corkwing wrasse© Itai Grisaru · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Common Cuttlefish© GBIF · CC BY via iNaturalist 
Atlantic mackerel© Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 
Velvet Swimming Crab© floris_heemskerk · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Shanny© Michiel Vos · CC BY-NC via iNaturalist 
Harbour Crab© Daniel Rodrigues · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Long-spined sea scorpion© lucane · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Compass Jellyfish© Christophe Quintin · CC BY-NC via iNaturalist 
Barrel Jellyfish© Cathy Hollingdale · CC BY-NC via iNaturalist
Reference photos via iNaturalist & Wikimedia contributors, under Creative Commons licences.
About PEBL
Plant Ecology Beyond Land (PEBL) CIC
PEBL is a Community Interest Company (no. 12076622, England and Wales) building accessible ecological data tools for coastal and seabed environments. FishSpotter is part of our marine monitoring programme: a citizen-science layer over real survey footage from PEBL deployments.
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