Technology Supports Marine Protection in the Mediterranean Sea
Mapping protected areas in the Mediterranean helps shine a light on illegal bottom trawling
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Bright Lights Reveal the “Dark” Fleet
Bright Lights Reveal the “Dark” Fleet A new partnership between Global Fishing Watch and NOAA matches night-time imagery with monitoring data from fishing vessels. January 16, 2018: Global Fishing Watch has entered into a new data-sharing partnership with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to improve understanding of the activity of fishing vessels […]
Chile Publishes Vessel Tracking Data
Latin American nation takes critical step forward in fisheries transparency, sharing vessel monitoring data on Global Fishing Watch Map
Vessel Tracking Data Reveals Global Footprint of Fishing Activity for the First Time
Groundbreaking research shows that more than half the ocean is affected by industrial fishing.
Analysis Exposes Illegal Fishing off Coasts of Somalia and Yemen
Nearly 200 Iranian and Pakistani vessels found fishing with banned drift nets in the Arabian Sea
Where Cost Matters: Global Fishing Watch Can Make Fisheries Monitoring Possible
Metcalfe (second from right) conducts field surveys with local fishers. Before discovering Global Fishing Watch, Dr. Kristian Metcalfe worked in Gabon on the west coast of central Africa on a Darwin Initiative funded project (20-009). The project established a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) using spatial analysis of satellite-derived data such as Automatic Identification […]
Satellite Data Casts Light on Seamounts at Risk
Emerging tools and datasets help quantify fishing pressure and can inform management at remote, unmonitored seamounts Seamounts—large underwater mountains— hold vital biological diversity, but they also contend with heavy exploitation. Numbering in the tens of thousands across vast stretches of the high seas, they have been favored targets for longline and deepwater trawl vessels. And […]
Why do some MMSI’s downloadable fishing effort data add up to more than 24 hours?
Sometimes the downloadable fishing effort data for an individual MMSI adds up to more than 24 hours per day. This is due to how Global Fishing Watch assigns time to AIS positions, which is based on the time since the vessel’s previous AIS position. However, due to uncertainty, we never assign a single position more […]
Mapping a New World
Tony Long, Global Fishing Watch’s chief executive officer, finds cause for gravity but also hope as we look to the Decade of Ocean Science and a growing consensus that our future—and the course ahead for ocean conservation—should be powered by waves of data, shared and open to all We wish the news were better, but […]