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CMAR at 20: A Visionary Model for Marine Conservation and International Cooperation

In Conversation with José Julio Casas The Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor is shaping the future of ocean sustainability in Latin America and the world, says José Julio Casas For two decades, the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor has united the governments of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama in safeguarding the unique marine ecosystems […]

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Navigating Change: Panama’s Acceleration Toward Fisheries Transparency

As Panama’s new government takes office, its strengthened commitment to ocean management is building a new wave of momentum Political cycles are almost always accompanied by uncertainty. New leaders, new initiatives and new priorities forge a landscape of unknowns, leaving many to wonder what a new normal will look like. Political turnover can also represent

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Three Key Actions that FAO’s Committee on Fisheries Must Take for a Sustainable Ocean

COFI36 is set to tackle our ocean’s most pressing challenges — from IUU fishing to environmental degradation. But prompt action on greater transparency should be top priority. Opening of the 35th Session of the Committee on Fisheries Meeting at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy. © FAO/ Pier Paolo Cito The fisheries and aquaculture sector is

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Better Ocean Governance Requires Cross-Sector Collaboration

Governments and civil society must work together to harness the full power of transparency and technology, says Luke Bantock Enhancing ocean governance starts with understanding what goes on at sea and empowering people everywhere to act on that knowledge. At Global Fishing Watch, we are driven by our mission to make the invisible visible—harnessing advanced

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Pilot users tout value of innovative vessel history tool across sectors

Vessel Viewer informs decision-making and operational planning for ports, insurance and seafood supply chains Few industries are as hard to monitor as commercial fishing, and few products as hard to trace as seafood. The challenges range from knowing a fishing vessel’s identity and what they are doing on the ocean’s vast expanses—and the history of

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New Fusion of Global Datasets Advances Understanding of Vessel Identity and Activity

Novel research provides new tool to improve global fisheries oversight Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing accounts for up to $23.5 billion every year and is enabled by vessels frequently changing their name, flag State or owner. New research , led by Global Fishing Watch and published in Science Advances , uses big data processing

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2022: A Year of Success—and Greater Promise

A wave of ocean action shows opportunities for greater transparency toward marine governance 2022 dawned with even more uncertainty than most years. With COVID-19 lingering, it was unclear if the ocean conservation and fisheries management communities could hold the international meetings necessary to kick start work that had stalled during the first two years of

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With New Global Accessibility and Data Features, Marine Manager Raises the Bar on Ocean Monitoring

Latest release of online tool will help more people monitor and manage greater expanses of the seas In our brief but exciting history working to shed greater visibility on what’s happening on the ocean, we’ve learned that one must meet challenges with the tools at hand, even while working to perfect them. So in 2021,

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Hotspots of Unseen Fishing Vessels Illuminate Areas of Concern for Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

New study provides first global dataset examining intentional disabling of automatic identification system devices across commercial fisheries The ocean is vast and ship crews rely on several tools to navigate it safely. One of these tools is the automatic identification system, commonly referred to as AIS, which uses GPS transponders to regularly broadcast critical information,

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Transparency Can Bring Forward Outcomes of International Fisheries Meeting

Committee on fisheries advances transshipment monitoring, vessel identification and tracking to fight illegal fishing International fisheries are managed through a patchwork of regulations, which present loopholes that are often exploited for financial gain, undermining collective good governance efforts. To help address this, every two years, the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the Food and Agriculture

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