The portal provides greater transparency into the activities of carrier vessels, their authorizations, the regions and ports they most frequent and, to the greatest extent possible, insight into the interactions between fishing vessels and carrier vessel fleets. The portal provides users with the ability to access information or conduct activities such as: View a comprehensively [...]
Encounters may indicate potential transshipment activity between two vessels that both appear on AIS. Encounters are estimated using AIS data, including distance between the two vessels, vessel speeds, and duration in a given area. An encounter is defined as when two vessels, a carrier vessel and encountered fishing vessel, are detected on AIS data as [...]
Loitering is when a single vessel exhibits behavior indicative of a potential encounter event. Loitering is also estimated using AIS data, including vessel speed, duration in a given location, and distance from shore. Loitering occurs when a carrier vessel travels at average speed of < 2 knots, while at least an average of 20 nautical [...]
Ports in the portal are based upon the Global Fishing Watch anchorages dataset, a global database of anchorage locations where vessels congregate. The dataset contains over 160,000 individual anchorage locations, which are further grouped into nearly 32,000 ports. A vessel is considered to have visited a port when within three kilometers of an anchorage location [...]
This global, public database and monitoring portal of carrier vessels involved in transshipment to help arm relevant authorities - from fishery managers to policymakers - with the information and evidence needed to strengthen transparency and accelerate transshipment policy reform, notably within the five global tuna regional fisheries management organizations where policy action has historically been [...]
One of world's biggest fishing nations faces economic setbacks, turns to artisanal fleet for food security This is the second blog in a series on the effects of COVID-19 on global fishing activity. Read our initial analysis of changes in global fishing activity during the pandemic here. According to the Global Fishing Watch database, [...]
Meaningful ocean action is needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 14, says United Nations Ambassador https://youtu.be/-dllabyGKqM Ambassador Peter Thomson, United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, addresses the importance of transparency and technology to achieve SDG-14. The world is at a standstill. Over the last few months, COVID-19 has challenged health systems, [...]
Analysis from SkyTruth and Global Fishing Watch shows ship tracks jumping thousands of miles from their true locations. Bjorn Bergman works with SkyTruth and with the Global Fishing Watch research team to track vessels broadcasting false automatic identification system (AIS) locations and to investigate new sources of satellite data for vessel tracking and for [...]
Two months ago, the death of fisheries observer Eritara Aati Kaierua was reported in Pacific waters, leading to an ongoing murder investigation. For many people, the idea of a murder taking place on board a confined fishing vessel out at sea seems inconceivable, but for those that know the fisheries sector well, it is [...]
Elena Ojea, senior researcher, University of Vigo Elena Ojea is a senior researcher at the University of Vigo where she founded the Future Oceans Lab, a Vigo-based research group on marine systems and climate change. Dr. Ojea holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences and a PhD in Economics, and was a [...]
Large scale, commercial fishing activity has often historically taken place out of sight - fishing grounds far from shore make them difficult and costly to monitor, jurisdiction considerations impede governance and a patchwork of regulations have not kept pace with advances in fishing technologies. As our global seafood consumption has increased, so has the [...]
A key goal of Global Fishing Watch is to partner with leading researchers who can help us better understand, apply, and expand the usefulness of our data for fisheries transparency. To date, we have partnered with over 12 academic institutions, as well as several government fisheries research agencies, such as Japan’s Fisheries Research Agency. [...]
Global Fishing Watch is excited to announce the launch of our data download portal, a new system for accessing our data. This platform is designed to provide a more streamlined, flexible, and customizable approach to downloading our data, with the goal of facilitating more frequent data updates moving forward. The portal will be used [...]
At Global Fishing Watch, we use cutting-edge technology to visualize, track and share data about global fishing activity in near real-time and for free. Our primary dataset comes from data about a vessel’s identity, type, location, speed, direction and more that is broadcast using the Automatic Identification System (AIS) and collected via satellites and [...]
Pada tanggal 1 Maret 2020, otoritas penegakan hukum Indonesia menangkap lima kapal ikan Vietnam yang menangkap ikan secara ilegal di Laut Natuna Utara di sebelah barat daya Kepulauan Natuna yang berbatasan dengan Laut Cina Selatan. Keberhasilan operasi yang dilakukan oleh armada kapal-kapal patroli milik Direktorat Jenderal Pengawasan Sumber Daya Kelautan dan Perikanan (PSDKP), Kementerian [...]
