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Navigating Change: Panama’s Acceleration Toward Fisheries Transparency

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  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 […]

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

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© FAO/ Pier Paolo Cito 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

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Better Ocean Governance Requires Cross-Sector Collaboration

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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

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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

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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 and a compilation of global datasets to track

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

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Latest release of online tool will help more people monitor and manage greater expanses of the seas A screenshot taken from the portal shows the overlay of different datasets: sea surface temperature and salinity, along with fishing activity. © Global Fishing Watch In our brief but exciting history working to shed greater visibility on what’s

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

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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

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Committee on fisheries advances transshipment monitoring, vessel identification and tracking to fight illegal fishing © Shutterstock 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

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In Latin America, Training Helps Governments to Discover Suspicious Behavior

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Global Fishing Watch reinstates in-person training with partners to strengthen the use of technology in support of responsible ocean management Lack of available information on global and regional fishing activity is one of the biggest challenges when it comes to monitoring the ocean and understanding the true extent of humanity’s impact on the sea.  To

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Seabirds: An Unexpected Ally in Fisheries Monitoring

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An innovative research project allows scientists to see through the eyes of seabirds to understand interactions with the Peruvian anchovy fishing fleet https://youtu.be/rI0Yj8aYhOE On any given day, you can find a wreck of seabirds soaring above the waters of Peru’s largest fishery—the anchovy—swooping down toward various fishing vessels hauling in their catch. These sentinels of

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