Darcy Bradley is a postdoctoral researcher at University of California – Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. Her recent publication in Conservation Letters, Leveraging satellite technology to create true shark sanctuaries, examined how advancements in tracking technology can help us better understand illegal fishing activity and therefore improve fisheries management. What do you […]
Response published to a study that claimed our algorithms overestimate fishing activity
Open Ocean Project Timeline The open ocean project details our efforts in building an interactive online map that publicly reveals all industrial human activity at sea. Follow our progress toward this audacious goal to transform ocean management by making the invisible visible. September2025Partnering with Planet to bring coastal waters and small vessels into focus High-resolution […]
Global Fishing Watch’s Monica Espinoza Miralles reveals how regional cooperation and technology are reshaping ocean governance in one of the world’s most biodiverse seas
Earlier this year we published in Science the first global assessment of fishing activity using AIS data, providing an unprecedented view into the activity of tens of thousands of large, industrial fishing vessels. We’ve made these fishing effort data publicly available, which is now leading a slew of advances in our understanding of fishing in […]
The Cocos Island National Park (CINP) is located in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 532 km southwest of Costa Rica. Consisting of a 24 square km island and a 1,989 square km marine area, including a 12 nautical mile no-take zone surrounding the island, it was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1997 and […]
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.
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