Revolutionizing Ocean Monitoring and Analysis

Our Mission

Using cutting-edge technology, Global Fishing Watch seeks to advance ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea.

Joint Analytical Cell

Bringing together stakeholders, the Joint Analytical Cell aims to provide authorities with fisheries intelligence, analysis and capacity building to combat illegal fishing.

Research Reveals Risks

New research shows fishing for tuna into daylight hours increases dangers for threatened seabirds and presents opportunity for better management.

Our map

The Global Fishing Watch map is the first open-access online platform for visualization and analysis of vessel-based human activity at sea, including fishing activity, encounters between vessels, night light vessel detection and vessel presence.

What we do

Our purpose is to create and publicly share knowledge about human activity at sea to enable fair and sustainable use of our ocean.

We use cutting-edge technology to turn big data into actionable information. We believe human activity at sea should be common knowledge in order to safeguard the global ocean for the good of all.

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Transparency

By embracing transparency, governments and authorities have a more cost-effective way of monitoring vessels, allowing fishers to demonstrate compliance rather than requiring the country to prove illegality.

Research

Global Fishing Watch partners with leading scientific institutions to produce new open-source datasets and analyses and understand the most critical challenges facing our ocean.

Technology

Our open-access data visualizations and analysis tools enable scientific research and drive a transformation in how we manage our ocean.
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