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Breakthroughs in Science: The Global Fishing Watch Research Program
Why is Global Fishing Watch (GFW), a non-profit organization, investing so much effort into collaborating with scientists to publish [...]
Tracking where sharks and ship overlap
Nuno Queiroz and a team of over 150 scientists recently published “Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the [...]
The capture of the MV NIKA: a case of illicit fishing and a showcase for how to beat it
A notorious vessel wanted in several jurisdictions was recently seized by Indonesia. Here’s the story of how international cooperation [...]
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 [...]
Working with our downloadable public data in R
Introduction Global Fishing Watch is committed to increasing the transparency of the world’s fisheries. Open science is a key [...]
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 [...]
Working with our public data: Google Earth Engine
Global Fishing Watch is committed to increasing the transparency of the world’s fisheries. Open science is a key component [...]
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 [...]