1 · Spot
Spot the species
Each clip is a short underwater snippet. Pick the species from a small set of likely candidates: local marine life curated by PEBL ecologists.
Spot the species in real underwater footage.
Every species you ID helps us better understand our coastlines.
139underwater clips72species to spot1,861identifications
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How it works
Three clips a day keeps the streak alive
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
Sprat© Ulf Teghammar · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Shanny© Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0 
Dragonet© Xavier Rufray · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Plaice© Liné1 · CC BY 2.5 
Ballan wrasse© galargus · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Thick-lipped mullet© Roberto Pillon · CC BY 4.0 
Atlantic mackerel© James-LaFontaine · CC BY via iNaturalist 
Flounder© Brenton Prigge · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Poor cod© Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC via iNaturalist 
European sea bass© Alison Mayor · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Long-spined sea scorpion© lucane · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Two-spotted goby© Tony Gilbert · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) 
Pollack© celticdeep · CC BY via iNaturalist 
Purple heart urchin© Roberto Pillon · some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Reference photos via iNaturalist & Wikimedia contributors, under Creative Commons licences.
Where the clips come from
Filmed beneath real seaweed farms
Every clip is filmed under a working UK seaweed farm. Most of what these farms grow becomes a biostimulant: a natural alternative to synthetic fertiliser that helps crops resist stress and grow stronger, sprayed onto real fields by real farmers. PEBL monitors six of them for a National Lottery Climate Action Fund project with WWF.
Meet all six farms →
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.