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Life Below Water: Ensuring Legal Seafood Starts with Supporting Fisheries Workers
Transparency of vessel information will protect fisheries observers and help create a culture of compliance Papua New Guinea: [...]
Transshipment Portal Shows Carrier Vessels Loitering in Waters off West Africa
Tracking refrigerated cargo ships, commonly called reefers, can help address illegal fishing in the Gulf of Guinea Transshipment, or [...]
Study Uses Satellite Technology to Reveal How Fisheries Respond to Marine Protection
A team of scientists investigate benefits of large marine protected areas Standing at sea level, looking out at the [...]
Spotting transshipment with an ocean of AIS data
Find out how Global Fishing Watch’s carrier vessel portal promotes ocean sustainability by tracking transshipment with the help of AIS [...]
Life Below Water: Celebrating 25 Years of Collaboration for Responsible Fisheries
Innovative use of data and technology can support the implementation of historic, flagship policies October 2020 brings the 25th [...]
Follow the lights: Squid Fishing in the Southeast Pacific Ocean
Satellite technology illuminates foreign and domestic vessels in search of one of Peru’s most valuable catches Asiatic squid [...]
Global Fishing Watch Data Reveals Ships Speed through Endangered Whale Habitat
Morgan Visalli is a project scientist at the Benioff Ocean Initiative at the University of California Santa Barbara, [...]
COVID-19 Harms Japanese Fisheries Despite Active Fleet
A second wave of the coronavirus could exacerbate future fisheries damages Global fishing activity has been in decline since [...]
New Partnership Brings Added Opportunities to Fisheries Monitoring
Global Fishing Watch becomes observer to International Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance Network It has been a busy summer for [...]