August 15, 2017
- How Seafood’s “Dark Web” Obscures Fraud, Fish Laundering, and Slavery on the High SeasKatarina Zimmer, The New Food Economy
The article on seafood fraud references findings from the Global Fishing Watch transshipment report.
- Report Assesses Gas Well Proximity to CommunitiesKen Ward, Jr., Charleston Gazette-Mail
Coverage on the report released by SkyTruth in collaboration with Downstream Strategies and San Francisco State University, “In Everyone’s Backyard: Assessing Proximity of Fracking to Communities At-Risk in West Virginia’s Marcellus Shale,” says that more than 7,000 homes were found to be located less than one-half mile from well pads in 2014. [Links to archived page]
February 22, 2017
- Hidden no more: First-ever global view of transshipment in commercial fishing industryScience News, Global Fishing Watch
The people at Global Fishing Watch provided this story to Science News coinciding with the release of their report, A Global View of Transhipment: Preliminary Findings. Using tools developed by SkyTruth and Global Fishing Watch, fisheries managers can now identify and monitor transshipment anywhere in the world.
- It took less than a minute of satellite time to catch these thieves red-handed: A small nonprofit caught these "dark" ocean vessels used for pirate fishingars TECHNICA, Annalee Newitz
In this article in ars TECHNICA, the author discusses how Global Fishing Watch uses AIS data to catch refrigerated “reefer” vessels in the act of rendezvousing with illegal dark fishing vessels. Featuring mentions of our very own John Amos and Bjorn Bergman.