Our Mission
There are places in this world that shape who we become. For me, one of those places is California's Eel River.
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Current Sight is an early-stage conservation technology company developing practical computer vision tools for fisheries monitoring.
Based in California. Built on curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning.
For generations, my family has spent summers along the banks of California's Eel River. My grandfather told stories of salmon runs so abundant they seemed almost impossible to imagine today.
As a kid, I remember catching trout with friends and believing those experiences would always be there.
Over time, the river changed.
Native salmon and steelhead populations declined. Invasive Sacramento Pike Minnow became increasingly common. Like many people who love wild places, I watched those changes happen and wondered what could be done.
For years, that question stayed just that — a question.
Then I realized something.
Technology had reached a point where one person with enough curiosity and determination could begin contributing in ways that simply weren't possible before.
I wasn't a fisheries biologist. I wasn't a software engineer. I had never built a computer vision model or programmed an edge computer.
But I knew how to learn. I knew how to solve problems. I knew how to build projects that brought people together around meaningful work.
Current Sight wasn't created because I believed I had all the answers. It was created because I believed that waiting for someone else to solve the problem wasn't enough.
Today, Current Sight is exploring how practical computer vision technology can support fisheries conservation — helping professionals better understand what's happening beneath the surface.
Technology isn't the mission.
Conservation is.
Every image collected, every model trained, every conversation with a fisheries scientist, every day spent in the field, and every lesson learned is another step toward building tools that can make meaningful conservation work just a little easier.
Along the way, I've discovered something unexpected: it's been the people.
Willing to share their experience and knowledge
Willing to challenge ideas and push the work forward
Willing to spend their own time collecting data in the field
Every relationship reinforcing the same lesson
Conservation is a team effort. Current Sight exists to contribute to that team.
There is much more to learn, many more partnerships to build, and countless challenges still ahead. That's exciting. Because meaningful work is rarely finished.
If Current Sight can help conservation professionals make better decisions, improve restoration efforts, or contribute — even in a small way — to healthier rivers and stronger native fish populations, then it will be doing exactly what it was created to do.
Leave it better than you found it.
Whether you're a biologist, a restoration practitioner, or someone who cares about what lives in rivers — Travis would love to hear from you.
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