Global Fishing Watch believes that fishing should be fully transparent. Transparency does not have to be instantaneous. A delay to the public dissemination is entirely reasonable, but the dissemination must contain the information needed to make the activity of the vessel and the catch clearly understood. It is the fact that fishers are aware that their activity will be made public that drives compliant behaviour across fisheries, such that the honest fishers are not left disadvantaged by those that flaunt the regulations.
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