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Detecting the targets on the surface of the water with high precision ensures the subsequent task implementation. However, the changes from the lights and the surface environment influence the performance of the target detecting method in a long-term task with USV. Therefore, this paper proposed a novel target detection method by fusing DenseNet in YOLOV3 to improve the stability of detection to decrease the feature loss, while the target feature is transmitted in the layers of a deep neural network. All the image data used to train and test the proposed method were obtained in the real ocean environment with a USV in the South China Sea during a one month sea trial in November 2019. 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