5 years, over 86,000 potential transshipments In early 2017, we released an original report based on analysis of our data that revealed remarkable new insights about what goes on between fishing vessels at sea. The machine learning platform we developed found that over the past five years, there were more than 86,000 potential cases in which fishing […]
Recovery from COVID-19 will require greater transparency in commercial fishing activity As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, its myriad negative consequences are slowly becoming clearer. While many of the impacts have been unmistakable, with entire countries locked down, some are playing out far away from our homes and shorelines, in the open ocean. […]
Camellia Williams is a Lead Writer at Vizzuality. See her original blog post here. We love hearing stories about people changing the world with the things we help make. This month we were contacted by Luli Masera. Luli is the co-founder of the Marine Conservation programme of Tompkins Conservation in Argentina and she had some extremely exciting […]
What is the ‘Port Buffer’? To improve data accuracy, we’ve introduced a port buffer filter to the ‘Apparent Fishing Effort’ (AIS) map layer. This filter excludes fishing activity that appears within 3 kilometers of ports and anchorages. Vessels often move slowly near ports while anchoring, transiting, or waiting. In AIS-based models, this slow movement can […]
Sam Weber worked previously for the Ascension Island Government and is currently at the University of Exeter helping to establish the largest Marine Protected Area in the Atlantic around Ascension Island.
Mapping Human Activity at Sea From Space Satellite imagery reveals extensive undisclosed industrial activity across the ocean Innovative research, harnessing AI and satellite imagery, shows the expanding footprint of human activity at sea, and reveals previously unmapped industrial use of the ocean and how it is changing. Led by Global Fishing Watch, researchers used machine […]
Right Click the images below to download in high res. Please credit Global Fishing Watch 2017 The animated Gif below shows Global Fishing Watch platform before the addition of data from Spire’s nano-satellites and after. Note: each lighted point on the map indicates a fishing vessel engaged in fishing. The new data points do not […]
John Marrone is a Tasmanian citizen and recreational fisherman who monitors local Marine Protected Areas via Global Fishing Watch. John Marrone, a Tasmanian recreational fisherman, first became interested in Global Fishing Watch after watching a clip of funder Leonardo DiCaprio on a local news network. Upon hearing DiCaprio speak about Global Fishing Watch, Marrone was […]
The VIIRS satellite sensor can identify bright lights at night. This is the same sensor that is used to make the maps of lights at night of the world that you may have seen. In the dark ocean, vessels using bright lights stand out to this sensor and can be tracked. Some forms of fishing, […]
Our Principles Related expert: Paul Woods and Hannah Linder Data ethics at Global Fishing Watch At Global Fishing Watch, data is fundamental to achieving our vision, driving the need for a robust approach to ethical considerations and decision-making in data stewardship. To address this, we commissioned the Open Data Institute to help us establish data […]
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