Earlier this month, Global Fishing Watch attended a meeting of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC), a relatively new Regional Fisheries Management Organization (RFMO) charged with managing the high seas in the northern Pacific. The NFPC has set an ambitious objective of ensuring ‘the long-term conservation and sustainable use of the fisheries resources in the […]
The new partnership will bolster the Central African nation’s efforts to strengthen vessel tracking and promote data-driven ocean governance through transparency at sea
NICE, France — As the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) closed today, global leaders showed tentative signs of moving beyond business as usual. Tucked into the ocean summit’s final outcome document, delegates finally recognized technology and transparency as critical tools to protecting our ocean and meeting global sustainability targets like 30x30
With support from Global Fishing Watch, Panama adopts new guidelines to oversee transshipment at sea, strengthening accountability.
Every day we download more than 20 million data points, giving us the positions of the about two hundred thousand vessels in the world. To see where these vessels traveled in 2015, I plotted their positions to create the map you see above. This map shows all vessels carrying AIS, and not just fishing vessels, and […]
Global Fishing Watch at UNOC3 Read our opinion piece From June 9 – 13 2025, the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), co-hosted by the governments of France and Costa Rica, took place in Nice, France. This year, the conference theme was “Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean”. […]
The new agreement aims to advance fisheries science and vessel monitoring through shared data and collaborative research.
As the 10th Our Ocean Conference discusses the future of digital oceans, Global Fishing Watch’s Tony Long and Paolo Domondon renew their call for a binding vessel tracking mandate to help deliver on the promise of 30x30.
Transparency Related expert: Courtney Farthing and Geoffrey Muldoon – Resources Transparency is critical to understanding activities taking place across the ocean and where those activities pose a risk to marine ecosystems, fisheries and coastal communities. It is also vital to reducing illegal and unreported fishing and promoting responsible ocean stewardship. Global Fishing Watch’s 2030 […]
In Conversation with Courtney Farthing With 75 percent of industrial vessels evading public monitoring, Global Fishing Watch’s policy team is driving efforts for binding vessel tracking rules — and a new era of accountability at sea. The ocean plays a central role in feeding the planet and powering the global economy. According to estimates, more […]
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