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Global Fishing Watch spotlights ocean governance successes, highlighting policy wins and tech innovations

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Washington, D.C., UNITED STATES — Global Fishing Watch today released its 2024 annual report, showcasing a year of bold strides and critical breakthroughs in driving transparent and equitable ocean governance — from undertaking pioneering research on hidden human activity at sea and catalyzing policy change at the United Nations to joining forces with governments worldwide to advance their ocean management strategies.

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Global Fishing Watch and Gulf of Guinea Regional Fisheries Commission forge partnership in fight against illegal fishing

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The two organizations will leverage ‘cutting-edge technology’ to accelerate ocean sustainability efforts in Central Africa LIBREVILLE, Gabon – Global Fishing Watch, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing ocean governance, and the Gulf of Guinea Regional Fisheries Commission (COREP), an intergovernmental body comprising 11 African nations, today launched a new strategic partnership aimed at addressing

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At Our Ocean Conference, Global Fishing Watch welcomes international partnerships to enhance ocean management

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Key collaborations will bolster fisheries governance through greater transparency, data-sharing and policy reform ATHENS, Greece – Global Fishing Watch, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing ocean governance through transparency of human activity at sea, has announced three pioneering collaborations with Greece, Panama and the West African Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC) in a bid to

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New research harnesses AI and satellite imagery to reveal the expanding footprint of human activity at sea

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Study reveals 75 percent of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public view WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new study published today in the journal Nature offers an unprecedented view of previously unmapped industrial use of the ocean and how it is changing. The groundbreaking study, led by Global Fishing Watch, uses machine learning

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Fisheries intelligence report reveals vessel behaviors associated with spoofing activity

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The Joint Analytical Cell finds a Chinese-linked squid fleet manipulating vessel identities and locations The Joint Analytical Cell (JAC) published a new collaborative analysis examining a fleet of Chinese-linked distant-water squid fishing vessels displaying behavior that indicates efforts to hide fishing activity, including possible illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) activity. Specific cases were identified by

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Canada and the UK Commit Support to the Joint Analytical Cell to Combat Illegal Fishing

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NEW YORK –  Canada and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (U.K.) announced during the 78th session of the U.N. General Assembly their commitment to support the Joint Analytical Cell (JAC), a collaborative initiative which provides authorities with the intelligence, analysis, and capacity building needed to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU)

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Global Fishing Watch and Palau Enter Partnership to Enhance Transparency in Fisheries Sector

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Momentum builds in Pacific as Palau joins progressive countries committed to publicly sharing vessel tracking data NEW YORK, U.S. – Global Fishing Watch welcomes a new partnership with Palau that aims to strengthen sustainable fisheries management and promote transparency as a principle of ocean governance. The agreement, which was signed between Global Fishing Watch and

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Where is your squid coming from? Most likely unregulated waters, according to a new international study

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New research fuses multiple data sources to advance understanding of the expanding footprint of global squid fleets Scientists and policymakers have voiced growing concerns about the decline of global squid stocks, but little has been done to date to target squid fishing activities that are expanding into unregulated spaces, according to a new international study.

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New research reveals shifting identities of global fishing fleet to help bolster fisheries management

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Scientific study fuses multiple data sources to advance global understanding of vessel identity and behavior A new study published today in Science Advances combines a decade’s worth of satellite vessel tracking data with identification information from more than 40 public registries to determine where and when vessels responsible for most of the world’s industrial fishing

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Global analysis shows where fishing vessels’ identification devices have been switched off

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New research displays intentional disabling of automatic identification system devices to provide insights into illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activity A new analysis harnesses automatic identification system, or AIS, data to provide information about global fishing activity, including illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Originally designed as a collision avoidance tool, AIS can be intentionally disabled—sometimes

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New Data Reveals Bottom Trawling In Protected Areas

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Greater transparency needed to stop illegal fishing in the Mediterranean Members of the Med Sea Alliance, a diverse coalition of nonprofit organizations, today launched a new data atlas which, for the first-time, maps areas permanently closed to bottom trawling across the Mediterranean and investigates illegal trawling in these areas. The Atlas is an online tool

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Global Fishing Watch welcomes partnership with Papua New Guinea to share vessel tracking data

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Momentum builds as a second nation in the Pacific makes critical decision to make fishing activity data accessible and transparent  In a newly established partnership with Global Fishing Watch, Papua New Guinea has committed to sharing vessel tracking data from its Fishing Industry Association on the organization’s public map. Through this agreement, the Pacific island

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Norway makes fishing vessel data accessible to the world

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Norway to become first European nation to share its vessel tracking information on Global Fishing Watch map Lisbon, Portugal – Norway has become the first country in Europe to partner with Global Fishing Watch—an international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing ocean governance through increased transparency—and will share its vessel tracking data for the Norwegian fishing fleet

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