2025 One Ocean Science Congress Research Poster: Tenfold increase in public vessel tracking supports science, management and policy Related expert: David Kroodsmahttps://youtu.be/FItXh5Don0s Download: 2025 One Ocean Science Congress research poster References Kroodsma, D. A. et al. Tracking the global footprint of fisheries. Science 359, 904–908 (2018). Park, J. et al. Tracking elusive and shifting identities […]
As Panama’s new government takes office, its strengthened commitment to ocean management is building a new wave of momentum Political cycles are almost always accompanied by uncertainty. New leaders, new initiatives and new priorities forge a landscape of unknowns, leaving many to wonder what a new normal will look like. Political turnover can also represent […]
Global Fishing Watch partners with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Decade of Ocean Science to bring digital innovation to fisheries monitoring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkyvl2dHZUI&ab_channel=GlobalFishingWatch Commercial fishing is vital to the food security, livelihoods and cultural identity of millions of people around the world. But the fish that sustain this industry freely swim […]
Vessel Tracking Related expert: Charles Kilgour We can’t manage what we can’t see. For decades, industrial fishing has operated in the shadows, remaining one of the most opaque and unmonitored sectors in global commerce. Global Fishing Watch’s mission is to shine a light on human activity at sea, bringing transparency to global fisheries and strengthening […]
In Conversation with Cian Luck A conversation on the quest to unveil hidden fishing vessel activity at sea Cian Luck, a senior fisheries analyst with the global programs team at Global Fishing Watch, studies his computer screen. Shades of blue collide across his monitor to form a map of the Earth’s ocean while flares of […]
Peru Our work Global Fishing Watch has been instrumental in supporting Peru’s leadership in fisheries transparency, marked by a milestone decision to share its vessel tracking data on our platform in 2018. As the first Latin American country to take this progressive step, Peru continues to demonstrate its commitment to responsible ocean governance, setting new […]
Governments and civil society must work together to harness the full power of transparency and technology, says Luke Bantock Enhancing ocean governance starts with understanding what goes on at sea and empowering people everywhere to act on that knowledge. At Global Fishing Watch, we are driven by our mission to make the invisible visible—harnessing advanced […]
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.
Vessel Viewer informs decision-making and operational planning for ports, insurance and seafood supply chains Few industries are as hard to monitor as commercial fishing, and few products as hard to trace as seafood. The challenges range from knowing a fishing vessel’s identity and what they are doing on the ocean’s vast expanses—and the history of […]
Satellite radar and machine learning publicly reveal previously unseen vessel activity around the world Washington, D.C. – Global Fishing Watch has developed and publicly released the first ever global map of previously undetected dark fleets, or vessels that do not broadcast their location or appear in public monitoring systems. Powered by satellite radar imagery and […]
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