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Vessel Tracking Best Practices Guide: Summary and Key Takeaways
A practical new framework offers governments a cost-effective roadmap to improve vessel tracking systems, secure their waters and protect fisheries
How AIS and VMS Tracking Technologies Work: 10 Essential Questions Answered
Discover how these complementary systems work, where each excels and why using them together strengthens fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance.
Tracking Vessels with VMS
With our marine ecosystems under constant threat from overfishing and illegal operations, regulatory bodies need a reliable way to monitor commercial fishing fleets.
Tracking Vessels with AIS
The ocean is one of the world’s most important shared resources, yet for decades, activities at sea occurred out of sight, making it difficult to manage marine resources and combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
Vessel Tracking Best Practices Guide
A practical new framework offers governments a cost-effective roadmap to improve vessel tracking systems, secure their waters and protect fisheries.
In the Philippines, Global Fishing Watch Trains Fisheries Authorities to Harness Satellite Data in the Fight Against Illegal Vessels
Philippine fisheries authorities are turning tracking data into actionable intelligence to target suspicious activity at sea
The Next Frontier of Ocean Governance: AI, Satellites and Transparency
Dr. Jennifer Raynor discusses the rapid evolution of AI-enabled vessel tracking technologies and how this technology can drive better decisions at sea.
Five Years of Ocean Transparency: How Brazil is Shaping the Future of the South Atlantic
After opening its fishing vessel tracking data to the public, Brazil is showing how transparency can drive effective stewardship of one of the world’s largest ocean territories.
New Account Settings and Security
Platform users can now enable two-factor authentication, sign in with a passkey, and manage account details and email preferences from a new settings page.
In Gabon, Satellite Intelligence Leads to the Seizure of Illegal Trawlers
Working alongside Gabonese authorities, Global Fishing Watch helps transform vessel tracking intelligence into coordinated enforcement action.
Panama Publishes Ultimate Beneficial Ownership Data for Its International Fishing Fleet
By revealing who ultimately profits from vessels flying its flag, Panama is setting a bold new standard for transparency and accountability in global fisheries
Gaps in Monthly Registry Source Ingestion
(Updated on 20 August 2026) Global Fishing Watch has temporarily paused data updates for Canada, Ecuador and the EU registries due to integration failures caused by source changes.