New Vessel Search and History Profiles

Global Fishing Watch has released updates to the map and vessel viewer tool. Anyone can now: 

• Analyze and understand a vessel’s history pattern through new vessel profiles.
  • The addition of vessel profiles offers a quick and powerful way to access more information about a vessel’s identity and activity information.
  • Rapidly view self-reported and registry-backed identity criteria, including owner and authorization information, as well as a timeline of vessel activity.
  • Collaborate between colleagues and departments by sharing vessel profiles, adding them to vessel groups, downloading profiles or saving them offline as PDF files for further work. 
  • Watch the video tutorial.
• Search for vessels using both self-reported identity information and information from over 40 public vessel registries.
  • Vessel search now includes information across over 40 public international, regional and national  vessel registries for a more accurate merging of vessel identities and records.
  • Range maps are included directly in search results to quickly understand whether the vessels are of interest.
  • Improved advanced search with multiple filters and customizable views. 
  • Watch the video tutorial.
• Benefit from general platform improvements.
  • We have implemented general improvements across many aspects of our platform based on user feedback, including:
    • An easier way to confirm filters across layers; 
    • The ability to toggle all vessel tracks on or off at once;
    • Performance enhancements; and, 
    • The user guide is now available in Portuguese.

Find our user guide, supporting information and tutorials on the Global Fishing Watch website. Share feedback through the built-in feedback form in the left sidebar on the vessel viewer and map or add feature requests to our public Canny board. Email [email protected] for support.

Release – Thursday 26 October