Ten days ago, a big Russian fishing trawler, the Oleg Naydenov, caught on fire in port in the Canary Islands. Spanish authorities had the burning vessel towed out to sea, where it sank in water nearly two miles deep about 15 miles south of the island of Gran Canaria. El País published a map showing the strange final […]
SkyTruth’s analysis of satellite-collected vessel location data recently helped land a ship apparently engaged in illegal fishing in the waters of Palau, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean (listen to the story on National Public Radio). Bjorn’s daily monitoring of AIS data revealed apparent fishing activity throughout December and January by a Taiwan-flagged tuna […]
We’ve been using AIS tracking data to monitor fishing activity in and around the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), within the territorial waters of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. The management of this marine protected area has attracted criticism by allowing sustained commercial fishing, despite the “protected” label. This video clip from Global Fishing […]
It’s Christmas Eve here in the U.S. and tonight there will be thousands of children keeping a close eye on the skies for a jolly man and his flying reindeer. Now while there are some engineers out there who have their doubts about the physics of ‘ol St. Nick, it is a well documented fact […]
THIS PAGE HAS BEEN UPDATED FROM THE ORIGINAL posted in November 2014. On September 15, 2016, at the Our Ocean Conference in Washington, DC. Actor and ocean advocate Leonardo DiCaprio announced in his remarks to the conference that Global Fishing Watch is now free and open to the public, and U.S. Secretary of State John […]