New Vessel Detections Dataset in APIs
Vessel detections from Sentinel-1 SAR are now available through our 4Wings API.
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Datasets API for Fixed Infrastructure Detections
A new API allows users to visualize changes in fixed offshore infrastructure over time.
Half the Ocean? A Response to the University of Washington’s Blog
On the pages of Science Magazine (comment and response), Twitter, the University of Washington’s Sustainable Fisheries blog, and The Atlantic, my co-authors and I have engaged in a healthy debate with University of Washington researchers about how to measure the global footprint of fisheries. This exchange has helped raise awareness of different ways to measure, understand, and […]
Version 5 Data Pipeline Release
Global Fishing Watch has launched an improved version 5 of our automatic identification system (AIS), vessel identity, imagery and vessel monitoring system (VMS) data pipelines, including a new general fishing model and a new vessel classification model.
User Guide
User Guide English | Español | Français | Portuguese |中文 Menu Introduction The Global Fishing Watch map is the first open-access online platform for visualization and analysis of vessel-based human activity at sea. Powered by satellite technology and machine learning, the map merges multiple types of vessel tracking data to provide a view of global […]
Working with our downloadable public data in R
Introduction Global Fishing Watch is committed to increasing the transparency of the world’s fisheries. Open science is a key component of this message and Global Fishing Watch strives to make as much data and code publicly available as possible. In addition to our map, these data are a way to provide users with a fine scale […]
Half the Ocean: Updating The Global Footprint of Fisheries
Global Fishing Watch’s updated fishing data offers new insight into the presence and behavior of the global fishing fleet In 2018, we published the first-ever global assessment of commercial fishing activity in Science. We tracked over 60,000 fishing vessels between 2012 and 2016, and estimated that fishing occurred on more than half of the ocean. […]
Life Below Water: Ensuring sustainable consumption and production of seafood
Large scale, commercial fishing activity has often historically taken place out of sight – fishing grounds far from shore make them difficult and costly to monitor, jurisdiction considerations impede governance and a patchwork of regulations have not kept pace with advances in fishing technologies. As our global seafood consumption has increased, so has the impact […]
2020 Hindsight: How a New Wave of Transparency Can Lead to Better Ocean Governance
Partnership and collective understanding will set the course for Global Fishing Watch’s work ahead And so ends another year—a year that many are perhaps eager to close out. I think it’s fair to say that none of us imagined 2020 would have panned out like this. Twelve months ago we were all preparing for a […]
2024 Aug – New release in our AIS data pipeline (version 3)
Global Fishing Watch has launched an improved version (v3.0) of our automatic identification system (AIS) data pipeline. The AIS data pipeline is the series of processes that we use to convert the raw satellite AIS ingested data to the data products, such as machine learning estimates of fishing activity, identity data that combines merged external […]