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 […]
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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 […]
2025 Annual Report JUMP TO: Message from the CEO Our Impact Success Stories Global Fishing Watch in Action Innovation Updates By the Numbers Financials Governance Message from the CEO In 2025, Global Fishing Watch made excellent progress toward our ambitious 2030 strategy, fueled by advances in technology, expansion of our user base and innovative tools, […]
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 […]
New study reveals global footprint of support vessels involved in rendezvous at sea. Every day thousands of fishing vessels roam the world’s ocean, combing the most lucrative fisheries for catch to bring back to market
Global Fishing Watch has launched an improved version — version 4 — of our automatic identification system (AIS), vessel identity, object detection and vessel monitoring system (VMS) data pipelines.
Global Fishing Watch establishes new portal to make application programming interfaces available to public Inequitable access to data and technology in support of ocean stewardship often leads to lost opportunities in decision-making and innovation—especially in under-resourced countries. The international community continues to fall short in its efforts to conserve and sustainably use the ocean and […]
Today we published our initial research on transshipment at sea. Transshipment at sea is where a fishing vessel offloads its catch to a refrigerated cargo vessel (or “reefer”) far from port. You can download a copy of our report via this link. The image above was created by our data scientist Nate Miller, who has spent […]
An analysis of the 2020 squid season reveals key players and true scope of fishing activity The jumbo flying squid (Dosidicus gigas), commonly referred to as Humboldt squid, is the most abundant cephalopod species in the southeast Pacific Ocean. Each year, this voracious and highly migratory marine animal attracts hundreds of fishing vessels from around the world to […]
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