Guide d’utilisation de la carte English | Español | Français | Portuguese |中文 Menu Introduction La carte Global Fishing Watch est la première plateforme en ligne en libre accès pour la visualisation et l’analyse de l’activité maritime humaine à bord de navires. Utilisant la technologie satellitaire et l’apprentissage automatique, la carte fusionne plusieurs types de […]
User Guide English | Español | Français | Portuguese |中文 Menu Introduction The Global Fishing Watch map is the first open-access online platform for visualization and analysis of vessel-based human activity at sea. Powered by satellite technology and machine learning, the map merges multiple types of vessel tracking data to provide a view of global […]
Last week, members of our team traveled to Peru to participate in a workshop on fishing algorithms and data, co-hosted by Oceana Peru and the Instituto del Mar de Peru (IMARPE). We made the journey because Peru is releasing its fishing vessel data to the world – the Peruvian Vice Minister of Fisheries, Hector Soldi, […]
Our Technology Harvesting big data Processing the data Sharing the results Just a decade ago, building an accurate picture of human activity at sea across the globe would have been impossible. But thanks to advances in satellite technology, cloud computing and machine learning, Global Fishing Watch is now making it a reality. We are revolutionizing […]
Platform Updates 2025 March – Vessel Viewer and Vessels API – New vessel identity fields from TMT New vessel identity information provided by TMT is now available in vessel profiles in Vessel Viewer, including vessel gear type, year built, length, depth, gross tonnage and photo, when available Global Fishing Watch and TMT are pleased to […]
CAPTION: Arufura Sea, January, 2018. Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) data from Indonesia is shown in the Global Fishing Watch map as yellowish dots. This image is overlayed with data from NOAA’s satellite-based Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) which detects many vessels not broadcasting VMS. VIIRS-detected vessels are shown here as blue sailboats. CREDIT: Global […]
For more information, contact: Kimbra Cutlip / [email protected] /+1 443.871.1632 See the public Indonesia workspace map revealing Indonesian VMS data alongside AIS data. https://globalfishingwatch.org/indonesia-vms ALL MEDIA INCLUDED HERE IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THIS GOOGLE DRIVE Youtube Video available here: https://youtu.be/U0vgrj9GhoU FOR IMAGES BELOW Credit: Global Fishing Watch, Inc., 2017 Captions: Global Fishing Watch uses publicly broadcast AIS signals to track fishing vessels. […]
Oceana and Global Fishing Watch Applaud Chile’s Leadership on Fisheries Transparency The Chilean government today signed an agreement to make its vessel tracking data publicly available through the Global Fishing Watch (GFW) map, which tracks the movements of commercial fishing* vessels in near real-time. The agreement, which was made between Chile’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture […]
Errors in fishing effort and fishing event data have been fully resolved.
To view different types of fishing vessel data, on the top of the left sidebar, we have the Activity section. The ‘apparent fishing effort’ includes AIS and VMS data. AIS data can be filtered by flag and gear type. VMS data can be filtered by source, flag and, in some cases, by gear type, fleet […]
