Species Estimation of Unidentified Bycatch Sea Turtles in the Indian Ocean using RandomForest

We attempted to classify unidentified sea turtles that were recorded as bycatch by scientific observers boarded on Japanese longline vessels in the IOTC area with using a random forest model. We constructed two models using only the IOTC area data, and combining the IOTC and the ICCAT data and compared the model performance. The both models showed high accuracy in species estimates.