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Fishermen set out for sea after summer fishing suspension ends, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China - 16 Sep 2014.

A who’s who for the oceans: building a global database of fishing vessels

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Our groundbreaking online map tracks the movements of commercial fishing vessels all over the world. As part of our ambition to reveal and analyse the fishing activity responsible for the majority of the world’s marine catch, we’re constantly working to improve the quality of the data behind the dots. Here, Data Scientist Jaeyoon Park takes […]

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New map features – from improved custom layer uploads to updated MPA layers

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Today, we are releasing an updated version of the Global Fishing Watch map that is easier to use and includes several new features. It also increases your ability to customize the map view. This update comes in response to some great feedback we’ve been getting from our community. You can now: Import custom polygon layers

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Half the Ocean? A Response to the University of Washington’s Blog

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On the pages of Science Magazine (comment and response), Twitter, the University of Washington’s Sustainable Fisheries blog, and The Atlantic, my co-authors and I have engaged in a healthy debate with University of Washington researchers about how to measure the global footprint of fisheries. This exchange has helped raise awareness of different ways to measure, understand, and

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Fishing Effort within the North Pacific Fisheries Commission

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Earlier this month, Global Fishing Watch attended a meeting of  the North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC), a relatively new Regional Fisheries Management Organization (RFMO) charged with managing the high seas in the northern Pacific. The NFPC has set an ambitious objective of ensuring ‘the long-term conservation and sustainable use of the fisheries resources in the

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Illegal transhipment of fish between Saly Reefer and Flipper 4 fishing vessel. Greenpeace is on tour in West African waters to address the problem of overfishing in the region. (photo courtesy of Greenpeace)

Machine learning and satellite data provide the first global view of transshipment activity

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This week marks the publication of the first-ever global assessment of transshipment in a scientific journal. Researchers at Global Fishing Watch and SkyTruth, in the journal Frontiers of Marine Science, published “Identifying Global Patterns of Transshipment Behavior.” What is transshipment? Why does it matter? What have we learned and what remains unknown? Read on to

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GFW New night light layer squid fleet in the Pacific

Identification of ‘dark vessels’

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Using bright lights to reveal the ‘dark’ fleet Christopher Elvidge with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Earth Observation Group writes about matching night-time imagery with monitoring data from fishing vessels to shed new light on the ‘dark’ fleet. The challenges with tracking vessels Vessel tracks from Automatic Identification System (AIS) and Vessel

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Satellite tracking shows the economics of much high seas fishing does not add up

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As the countdown continues to September’s historic first round of United Nations treaty talks on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity  in the high seas, science and technology are shedding increasingly compelling light on what is currently happening in this previously poorly understood realm. The latest in a series of reports focused on

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Tony Long presenting at the Ocean Risk Summit

Data sharing key to building the transparency needed to assess and respond to ocean risk

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Global Fishing Watch discusses the use of technology at the first ever Ocean Risk Summit, Bermuda 8-10th May I was very pleased to be invited to the first ever Ocean Risk Summit in Bermuda last week. Re-insurer XL Catlin gathered leaders from across the political, economic, environmental and risk sectors to identify potential exposures to the

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Our Data in BigQuery

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Today, with our publication in Science, we are releasing fishing effort data for 2012 to 2016. One of the ways we are releasing it is through Google’s BigQuery. https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/ If you have not used BigQuery, vist here and click on try it free to get started. You can query up to one terabyte per month for no charge, which is

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