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Are unauthorized foreign vessels deterred from fishing inside Exclusive Economic Zones?

Fisheries, Impacts, News & Views, Policy & Compliance / By Gabriel Englander

Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) are perhaps the largest property rights institution in the world, covering about 39% of the ocean’s surface and accounting for more than 95% of global marine fish catch. Because assigning property rights can improve both ecological and economic outcomes, EEZs could be an important institution for improving the sustainability and profitability […]

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Does iron supply play a role in wild fish?

Fisheries, Research and analysis / By Sarah Bladen

Eric D Galbraith, professor at McGill University and associate faculty at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, shares his journey to a new paper, Growth Limitation of Marine Fish by Low Iron Availability in the Open Ocean, that harnesses Global Fishing Watch data with a healthy dose of collaboration and curiosity. The story of this paper

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Government, research, and industry collaborators in Peru

Collaborating, Adapting Algorithms for Peru’s VMS

Transparency / By Global Fishing Watch

Last week, members of our team traveled to Peru to participate in a workshop on fishing algorithms and data, co-hosted by Oceana Peru and the Instituto del Mar de Peru (IMARPE). We made the journey because Peru is releasing its fishing vessel data to the world – the Peruvian Vice Minister of Fisheries, Hector Soldi,

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Understanding Fishing Activity Around Ascension Island

Research and analysis / By Kimbra Cutlip

Sam Weber worked previously for the Ascension Island Government and is currently at the University of Exeter helping to establish the largest Marine Protected Area in the Atlantic around Ascension Island.

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Global Fishing Watch Makes a Splash at the UN Ocean Conference

News & Views / By Samantha Emmert

A traditional Fijian welcoming ceremony complete with meke dancing. Giant sculptures of sea creatures made of ocean trash along the East River. Announcements of MPA designations and other commitments to marine conservation by leaders from all over the world. As our Global Fishing Watch team arrived at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York

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Fisheries Stakeholders Offer Insights to New Uses and Expanded Datasets

News & Views / By Kimbra Cutlip

During the first two weeks of May, a team of Global Fishing Watch developers, designers and project managers gathered in Europe with members of our user community to teach, learn and brainstorm improvements and new uses for our online map and data.

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Our Recent Webinar Success Bodes Well for More to Come

News & Views / By Kimbra Cutlip

Last Monday, we held a webinar in which 48 registered Global Fishing Watch users had an opportunity to hear from, and ask questions of, two of the authors of our recent report “The Global Footprint of Transshipment.”

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The First-Ever Global View of Transshipment in Commercial Fishing

Press Release / By Kimbra Cutlip

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 22, 2017 Contacts: Kimbra Cutlip, [email protected] +1.443.871.1632 David Kroodsma, [email protected], +1.415.656.7540 Mara Harris, [email protected] Hidden No More: The First-Ever Global View of Transshipment in the Commercial Fishing Industry Transshipment, the transfer of goods from one boat to another, is a major pathway for illegally caught and unreported fish to enter the global

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Fishing in a Marine Park? Look Again.

Policy & Compliance / By Kimbra Cutlip

After our recent post Deciphering Suspicious Behavior: It’s not always what it seems, we thought it would be insightful to post a few examples of vessel behavior that looked suspect, but turned out to be easily explained on closer inspection. Often, a look at the other vessels in the area can help explain what’s going

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Identifying Transshipment From the Data

Data and technology / By Kimbra Cutlip

When two ships meet to transfer goods, it is called transshipment. In the fisheries industry, it is sometimes legal in ports, but usually illegal out at sea where the practice can’t be monitored. [You can read more about it here]. Transshipment can facilitate the mixing of illegal or unreported catch with legal catch, making it

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Aaron Roan demonstrates features of the Global Fishing Watch map

Exploring a New World of Data with Team Member Aaron Roan

News & Views / By Kimbra Cutlip

If you’ve grown accustomed to the idea that everything in our world is traceable—from airplanes to cell phones to personal browsing history and purchasing habits—it may seem like a no-brainer that we can use publicly broadcast Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals from ships at sea to find out where they are and what they’re doing. But in

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Teaching Machines to Tell Us About Fishing

Data and technology / By Kimbra Cutlip

None of what we’re doing at Global Fishing Watch would be possible without the advancements in computing power that have occurred in recent years. The volume of data we work with would have been overwhelming in the past. In one random sample, we observed more than 127,000 vessels over a 24-hour period broadcasting the Automatic

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