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Life Below Water: Improving fisheries transparency to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) set ambitious targets to address the global challenges we face, including [...]
Fast-tracking Law-abiding Ships at Ports Could Help End Illegal Fishing
by Nicola Frost, Tony Long, Stephanie Juwana and Mansi Konar When the UN launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) five years ago, the world [...]
The Rewards of Large-Scale Marine Protection
Juan Carlos is a PhD Student at UC Santa Barbara where he combines economics, technology, and data science [...]
Greater focus on international cooperation, information sharing and policy implementation is needed in the fight against IUU fishing
The European Commission recently warned Panama for a second time that they must tackle IUU fishing, but no one [...]
Peru expands vessel tracking system to show activity of two large artisanal fishing fleets
By April 2020, some 750 artisanal fishing vessels targeting jumbo flying squid and mahi-mahi are expected to join the [...]
Full Speed Ahead
Tony Long, Global Fishing Watch Chief Executive Officer, looks back at 2019 and sets a course for 2020 – [...]
The Global Atlas of AIS-based Fishing Activity
In 2018, Global Fishing Watch (GFW) published the first ever global maps of fishing activity using AIS data. These [...]
On the frontline against illegal fishing in the world’s biggest ocean
Global Fishing Watch data assists US Coast Guard patrol in the Pacific. The 2019 patrol produced a threefold increase in [...]
Are unauthorized foreign vessels deterred from fishing inside Exclusive Economic Zones?
Gabriel Englander, PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley. Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics. Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) are [...]