Last year, Dr. Doug McCauley told the New York Times that humanity may be on the verge of creating a mass extinction in the seas unless we can rapidly change our course. McCauley and his colleagues had just published a paper in Science magazine on the health of the oceans that drew a lot of […]
La pêche vue de l’espace : l’empreinte mondiale de la pêche industrielle enfin dévoilée Les données satellitaires montrent que la pêche exploite une zone quatre fois plus vaste que les zones agricoles. Washington DC, le 22 février — Une étude publiée ce jour dans Science apporte un éclairage sur l’ampleur de la pêche mondiale – jusqu’aux déplacements […]
Study reveals 75 percent of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public view WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new study published today in the journal Nature offers an unprecedented view of previously unmapped industrial use of the ocean and how it is changing. The groundbreaking study, led by Global Fishing Watch, uses machine learning […]
Ask the Expert Luca Marsaglia Fisheries analyst, European Union What is the value of using research-derived datasets in analyses? Fisheries management is no simple task. The distribution of species, changes in productivity, management boundaries, illegal fishing and corruption are all factors that make oversight and governance of fisheries challenging. And the Mediterranean Sea is no exception. […]
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 […]
A traditional Fijian welcoming ceremony complete with meke dancing. Giant sculptures of sea creatures made of ocean trash along the East River. Announcements of MPA designations and other commitments to marine conservation by leaders from all over the world. As our Global Fishing Watch team arrived at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York […]
Open Ocean Project Transforming ocean management by making the invisible visible When it comes to ocean governance, there lies a simple truth: We can’t manage what we can’t see. Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Most of the ocean has gone unobserved and unmapped—a world of unknown. And without a comprehensive picture of what goes on […]
Wei Zhou, ocean campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia’s Beijing office, used Global Fishing Watch to understand the impact of recent changes to fisheries policy in China on the extent of fishing in the Chinese EEZ. On September 16, 2017 at noon, over 10,000 fishing vessels based in Zhejiang and Fujian Provinces in China headed out to start […]
Operation North Pacific Guard: How Data and Analytics Helped the U.S. Coast Guard Crack Down on Illegal Fishing By providing intelligence on suspicious behavior, Global Fishing Watch helped authorities run more effective patrols © USCG / AIS US The Issue The northwest Pacific Ocean contains some of the most productive fishing grounds in the world, […]
A ground-breaking study revealed that hundreds of industrial fishing vessels were illegally catching vast quantities of squid in North Korean waters – with huge economic and human costs.
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