When two ships meet to transfer goods, it is called transshipment. In the fisheries industry, it is sometimes legal in ports, but usually illegal out at sea where the practice can’t be monitored. [You can read more about it here]. Transshipment can facilitate the mixing of illegal or unreported catch with legal catch, making it […]
Greater transparency needed to stop illegal fishing in the Mediterranean Members of the Med Sea Alliance, a diverse coalition of nonprofit organizations, today launched a new data atlas which, for the first-time, maps areas permanently closed to bottom trawling across the Mediterranean and investigates illegal trawling in these areas. The Atlas is an online tool […]
Our APIs SEE DOCUMENTATION Explore, visualize and freely download Global Fishing Watch data and synthesize multiple streams of information through our API portal. By openly publishing our APIs, we aim to transform global collaboration and catalyze solutions to address the ocean’s most complex problems. Building innovative ways to access and integrate our dynamic data Global […]
Projects Detection of Fishing Impacts Better models to evaluate ocean harvest Areas of heaviest activity by fishing vessels broadcasting their position on the automatic identification system are seen in yellow Algorithms can help determine when and where vessels are fishing. When we apply them to vessel movement data, we can more accurately assess fishing activity […]
Datasets and Code: Transhipment Thanks to a practice known as transshipment—the transfer of catch between vessels—fishers can stay at sea for months at a time without ever having to take a costly and time-consuming trip back to port to offload catch. However, transshipment also obscures the seafood supply chain from hook to port and hobbles […]
The no-take marine reserve Motu Maha surrounds the Aukland Islands. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are among the best tools we have for conserving biodiversity in the oceans, protecting vulnerable marine life, and providing places of refuge for fish stocks. But do they work? Can vast areas of ocean really be regulated? And if so, what […]
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 […]
The data in the portal is created using automatic identification system (AIS) data. AIS transmits a ship’s position so that others can be made aware of its location and avoid potential collision. AIS transmits a ship’s location, speed, direction, and identity information, such as a vessel’s name and flag. Global Fishing Watch uses AIS data […]
Near-real-time nighttime vessel detections from Skylight’s VIIRS model are now available in Global Fishing Watch platform, enabling improved monitoring of vessel activity at night.
Manuel Dureuil is a PhD student researching sharks and Kristina Boerder a postdoctoral fellow working on marine protected areas at Dalhousie University, Canada. In a recent publication in SCIENCE, Elevated trawling inside protected areas undermines conservation outcomes in a global fishing hotspot, Manuel, Kristina and a team of researchers from Dalhousie University, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre […]
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