WASHINGTON, DC, June 8, 2018 – To mark World Ocean Day, Global Fishing Watch (GFW) has increased ocean transparency by releasing the first-ever ‘live’ global view of likely transshipping at sea — a practice that can mask illegal fishing activity, and imagery of night-time fishing and its location, exposing vessels often hidden from other monitoring […]
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Satellite based data show fishing affects four times larger area than agriculture
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 22, 2018 – A study published today in Science illuminates the extent of global fishing – down to individual vessel movements and hourly activity – and opens an unprecedented gateway for improved ocean management. The study shows that, while the footprint of capture fishing extends across more than half the global ocean, […]
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Hidden no more: First-ever global view of transshipment in commercial fishing industry
Feb. 27, 2017 – Transshipment, the transfer of goods from one boat to another, is a major pathway for illegally caught and unreported fish to enter the global seafood market. It has also been associated with drug smuggling and slave labor. Illegal in many cases, transshipment has been largely invisible and nearly impossible to manage, […]