With increased transparency, we can see beyond the horizon and address the threats facing our oceans. Global Fishing Watch’s (GFW) mapping platform increases the transparency of commercial fishing activities worldwide, empowering Oceana and others to expose problems that were once out of sight, far from our coasts. Oceana analysts, part of Oceana’s Illegal Fishing and […]
13 global layers are now available on ArcGIS Online, enabling users to directly work with our datasets within ESRI’s platform services
New APIs provide statistics about fishing effort and vessel events worldwide or for a custom region.
SAR vessel and fixed infrastructure detections are now available in new layers.
Vessel identity and activity insights are now available in Vessel Viewer and our APIs.
Updates to the data download portal include a new vessel detections dataset and SAR detection footprints.
A new API allows users to visualize changes in fixed offshore infrastructure over time.
Our static dataset now covers 2012-2024, with nearly 370 million hours of fishing activity.
Shamira Abdulai provides a demonstration of Vessel Viewer to participants during an interagency workshop in Ghana. Copyright: © 2024 TMT Ghana, like many West African countries, has long faced challenges with fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance. The entire region has a longstanding vulnerability to being used as a landing or transit point in the […]
When it looks like spaghetti, it may be fishing. That’s one of the first lessons students learn when they’re working with Kristina Boerder, one of our academic partners from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Of course, she’s not teaching them about pasta. She’s teaching them about the movement patterns of ships at sea. The […]
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