This week marks the publication of the first-ever global assessment of transshipment in a scientific journal. Researchers at Global Fishing Watch and SkyTruth, in the journal Frontiers of Marine Science, published “Identifying Global Patterns of Transshipment Behavior.” What is transshipment? Why does it matter? What have we learned and what remains unknown? Read on to […]
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 […]
The portal provides greater transparency into the activities of carrier vessels, their authorizations, the regions and ports they most frequent and, to the greatest extent possible, insight into the interactions between fishing vessels and carrier vessel fleets. The portal provides users with the ability to access information or conduct activities such as: View a comprehensively […]
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing Risk Insights Global Fishing Watch identified 11 illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing risk insights based on a comprehensive literature review of IUU fishing reporting. In the review, a total of 83 citations referenced vessel tracking data in the context of IUU fishing detection. Of those citations, 40 were reports […]
Track deep-sea mining vessels in near real time with the new Deep-Sea Mining Watch portal — transparency for our ocean’s future.
Satellite technology helps shine a light on one of the most hidden and remote practices across the the global fishing industry
Key ocean nation outlines how voluntary guidelines can set a clear policy framework for enhanced regulation, monitoring and control of at-sea transfer of fishing catch Fishing is a crucial part of life for people throughout the world and the industry contributes to the food security, economic prosperity and cultural identity of many people, including communities […]
Not necessarily. The resolution of each grid cell changes with the zoom level, you can see the resolution in the legend of each apparent fishing activity layer (for example in the screenshot, 120 km2 is the approximate grid cell area at equator). Each grid cell adds fishing effort for the area of the cell, so […]
Find out how Global Fishing Watch’s carrier vessel portal promotes ocean sustainability by tracking transshipment with the help of AIS data This article was produced and first published by our data partner, Spire Global. Global Fishing Watch created a new tool using Spire Global’s AIS data to shine a light on transshipment—a critical process of high seas […]
Pacific case study suggests greater transparency will improve legitimacy and sustainability of tuna fisheries Transshipment, the transfer of catch from fishing vessels to refrigerated cargo vessels (often called ‘reefers’ or ‘carriers’) is an important part of many seafood supply chains. But when transshipment occurs at sea, loopholes in governance and gaps in monitoring can obscure […]
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