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, […]
Global Fishing Watch urges SPRFMO members in Panama to boost vessel ownership transparency and tracking to combat illegal fishing.
This year’s first fishing season for Peruvian anchovy opens on May 4th and for the first time ever anyone can track the fishing fleet as the season progresses, thanks to the recent agreement to publish Peru’s vessel data via Global Fishing Watch’s public map. En español Monitoring of the Peruvian anchovy fleet using the national Vessel Tracking […]
The Global Squid Fishery Related expert: Nate Miller The global squid fishery is made up of hundreds of vessels operating primarily in unregulated areas of the high seas. In recent years, fishing activity has increased sharply, raising concerns in coastal States whose exclusive economic zones (EEZ) border major squid fishing grounds. The global squid fleet […]
Nota de Prensa en español Panama City, 20 March 2019 – Panama today signed a formal agreement to make its national vessel tracking data publicly available through the Global Fishing Watch (GFW) map platform, demonstrating its commitment to greater transparency in fishing activities and to promoting sustainability. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the […]
Monitoring portal helps Guyana track increased vessel traffic from growing oil and gas industry Shell Beach is Guyana’s only coastal protected area and a renowned sea turtle nesting area. © Reel Guyana When a major global energy company discovered oil and gas reserves off the coast of Guyana in 2015, the nonprofit group Guyana Marine Conservation […]
An investigation using the Global Fishing Watch map uncovered months of offshore fossil fuel activity raising concerns for fisheries and coastal communities
How will a new reference layer on the Global Fishing Watch platform help users monitor activity in preferential access areas?
Tony Long, CEO, Global Fishing Watch Imagine being told that a vital and valuable resource, found in an area covering almost half the surface of the Earth, was being extracted, with barely any control, by just a handful of wealthy nations. It would hardly sound fair, but that is the reality of industrial fishing on […]
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