Global Fishing Watch API
API v3Events

Events API

Explore vessel activity: apparent fishing, encounters between vessel types, loitering, port visits and AIS gaps.

Introduction Events API

Events API allows you to explore different activities of a vessel. You can analyze:

  • apparent fishing events
  • encounters between these vessel types: fishing-carrier, fishing-support, fishing-bunker, fishing-fishing, tanker-fishing, carrier-bunker and support-banker.
    • In this API Portal we are offering more encounter types compared to our Public Map
  • loitering for all vessel types
  • port visits for all vessel types
  • AIS off (aka GAPs) for all vessel types

Check more detail about data caveats here.

Event responses are paginated. See Pagination for how limit, offset, and nextOffset work.

REMINDER! Change the API Dataset to select the event type:

  • For fishing events, use public-global-fishing-events:latest
  • For encounters events, use public-global-encounters-events:latest
  • For loitering events, use public-global-loitering-events:latest
  • For port visits, use public-global-port-visits-events:latest
  • For AIS off event, use public-global-gaps-events:latest

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