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For better or worse, technology is taming the high seas
Ahead of World Oceans Day 2019, Tony Long, Global Fishing Watch CEO, reflects on how a technology revolution is [...]
Rhythms of the wild in global fisheries data
Eric Galbraith is an ICREA research professor based at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Jerome Guiet is a postdoctoral [...]
World’s largest commercial fishery publicly tracked on Global Fishing Watch map
This year’s first fishing season for Peruvian anchovy opens on May 4th and for the first time ever anyone [...]
Predicting overlap of tunas, sharks, and ships at sea
Tim White is a PhD candidate at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. His recent publication in Science Advances, Predicted [...]
Match-making at sea: how to find fishing fleets
Staring at the Global Fishing Watch map, your eye is inevitably drawn to patterns of vessels that move together. [...]
Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Antha Williams talks transparency
How do you see Global Fishing Watch (GFW) supporting Bloomberg’s Vibrant Oceans Initiative? Until Global Fishing Watch was launched, [...]
The Tale of the Albatross and the Algorithm
The first-ever satellite mapping of fishing vessel behaviours has identified that very few vessels are using one of the [...]
More fishing inside, more sharks outside marine protected areas
Manuel Dureuil is a PhD student researching sharks and Kristina Boerder a postdoctoral fellow working on marine protected areas [...]
Global Fishing Watch 2018 – the year in transparency
After just over a year at the helm, Global Fishing Watch CEO, Tony Long, reflects on how a freely [...]