In Conversation with Rocío Joo Using satellite data and machine learning, Global Fishing Watch is working to reveal human rights abuses in the fishing industry — and help authorities take action The open ocean remains one of the most challenging places on Earth for human rights enforcement. Covering more than 70 percent of the planet’s […]
Costa Rica and Global Fishing Watch (GFW), working with the Asociación Costa Rica por Siempre and the Fundación Pacífico, have entered into an agreement to advance transparency in the country’s fisheries. Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Environment and Energy signed a letter of intent on May 2nd to make the […]
Backed by Global Fishing Watch, the new guidelines enhance vessels monitoring and mandate the integration of new open data technologies A new policy document adopted by the government of Panama is slated to help the Central American country improve controls of its international service fleet and boost transshipment oversight as part of a move to […]
We published a logistic regression model for fishing localization a while a go as a python library built on top of scikit-learn. In this blog-post I’ll give you a quick introduction to how it can be used. The data we’re going to use is an AIS track exported from Google’s BigQuery, containing the columns timestamp (seconds since epoch), course (degrees) and speed (knots). […]
Today, with our publication in Science, we are releasing fishing effort data for 2012 to 2016. One of the ways we are releasing it is through Google’s BigQuery. https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/ If you have not used BigQuery, vist here and click on try it free to get started. You can query up to one terabyte per month for no charge, which is […]
2024 Annual Report JUMP TO: Message from the CEO Our Impact Global Fishing Watch in Action Innovation Updates Joint Analytical Cell By the Numbers Financials Governance Message from the CEO Global Fishing Watch’s mission is to secure a healthy, productive and resilient ocean using technology and transparency to transform ocean governance. In 2024, we made […]
SANTIAGO, Chile — On Friday, the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) concluded its 13th Annual Commission Meeting with a call for greater transparency in support of strong and effective fisheries management.
Media Center Find the latest news on issues affecting our global oceans and Global Fishing Watch’s work including press releases, news stories, multimedia content, statements and other resources for journalists. Tracking the Tide: Unveiling the Hidden World of Vessel Activity An estimated 75% of industrial fishing vessels do not appear in public monitoring systems. They […]
Senegal Our work Since 2021, Global Fishing Watch has been working with Senegal to enhance fisheries governance, build capacity and deploy cutting-edge technology to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. What started as a collaboration through TMT to bolster port controls in Senegal and three other African States has matured into a long-term, shared […]
Combatting illegal fishing: the threat to sustainable ocean future. Learn about the impacts of IUU fishing and its toll on fish stocks and coastal communities.
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