The Joint Analytical Cell (JAC) had the opportunity to support the Africa Nemo 23.04 joint patrol in the Gulf of Guinea. The annual patrol is a collaborative effort led by the French Navy responsible for the Atlantic Area (CECLANT) and included the navies of Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, the European Fisheries Control Agency […]
We partnered with Peru—the world’s second largest fishing nation—to make its fisheries transparent
Costa Rica joins a growing movement of Latin American countries committed to fisheries transparency
Metcalfe (second from right) conducts field surveys with local fishers. Before discovering Global Fishing Watch, Dr. Kristian Metcalfe worked in Gabon on the west coast of central Africa on a Darwin Initiative funded project (20-009). The project established a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) using spatial analysis of satellite-derived data such as Automatic Identification […]
Transparency in Focus: Peru In 2018, Peru sparked a wave of transparency across Latin America by sharing its vessel monitoring system data on the Global Fishing Watch map. That decision transformed the fishing sector and has helped deliver knowledge about the ocean to improve policies and deliver effective action in fisheries management. Thanks to the […]
Tony Long, Global Fishing Watch’s chief executive officer, finds cause for gravity but also hope as we look to the Decade of Ocean Science and a growing consensus that our future—and the course ahead for ocean conservation—should be powered by waves of data, shared and open to all We wish the news were better, but […]
In early June of this year, at the first United Nations Ocean Conference, something unprecedented happened in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Convinced by the Global Fishing Watch vision of increasing transparency on the world’s oceans, the government of Indonesia turned its proprietary vessel monitoring system (VMS) data over for publication […]
Rodrigo Claudino Fisheries Analyst – Latin America Itajaí, Brazil Rodrigo Claudino dos Santos is a fisheries analyst focusing on Latin America and supporting the transparency program to help organizations and governments use big data analysis to improve their fisheries management. Claudino has over 15 years of experience in vessel monitoring systems (VMS) analysis, fisheries management, […]
Pacific case study suggests greater transparency will improve legitimacy and sustainability of tuna fisheries Transshipment, the transfer of catch from fishing vessels to refrigerated cargo vessels (often called ‘reefers’ or ‘carriers’) is an important part of many seafood supply chains. But when transshipment occurs at sea, loopholes in governance and gaps in monitoring can obscure […]
Global Fishing Watch becomes observer to International Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Network It has been a busy summer for us at Global Fishing Watch. While travel may have been suspended and the majority of fisheries and ocean-related meetings were either canceled or postponed – some held virtually – the work has not slowed down. And […]
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