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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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Edaysi Bucio Bustos Senior Manager, Latin America, Global Programs Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, México Edaysi Bucio Bustos is the senior manager of analysis for Latin America at Global Fishing Watch. She is in charge of analyzing data from automatic identification systems and vessel monitoring systems to support countries in the region and train them in using

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Global Fishing Watch Doubles Its Data with Help of Nano-satellites from Spire Sense

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Media contact: Kimbra Cutlip Kimbra (at) GlobalFishingWatch.org +1 443.871.1632 [MULTI-MEDIA AVAILABLE HERE] Nov 1, 2017: Global Fishing Watch is pleased to announce that, through a partnership with Spire Global, Inc, it has doubled the amount of data used to identify and track nearly 60,000 commercial fishing vessels on the world’s oceans. The Global Fishing Watch

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Project – Measuring Impacts of a Growing Fleet

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Projects Measuring Impacts of a Growing Fleet Ocean-going vessel activity quantified at scale © photoneye / Shutterstock By processing and analyzing data from automatic identification systems (AIS), we are able to reveal the global pattern of all sea-going vessels and begin to identify their impacts on ocean ecosystems. An increasing challenge  Vessel traffic has quadrupled

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Costa Rica commits to making its fishing fleet visible to the world

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Costa Rica and Global Fishing Watch (GFW), working with the Asociación Costa Rica por Siempre and the Fundación Pacífico, have entered into an agreement to advance transparency in the country’s fisheries. Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Environment and Energy signed a letter of intent on May 2nd to make the

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Panama publishes vessel tracking data through Global Fishing Watch

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Oslo, Norway. October 23, 2019. In front of world leaders gathered in Oslo, Norway for the sixth-annual Our Ocean conference, Panama announced the public release of its vessel tracking data via Global Fishing Watch (GFW). Panama’s distant water fishing fleet is now visible in GFW’s public map in near real time, for free. Panama reinforced

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