Global Fishing Watch

Global Fishing Watch is a website launched in September 2016 by Google in partnership with Oceana and Skytruth, "to provide the world’s first global view of commercial fishing activities". At any moment, 200,000 vessels are publicizing their locations via the Automatic Identification System (AIS).[1]

Global Fishing Watch enables users with Internet access to monitor fishing activity globally, and to view "individual vessel tracks, exclusive economic zones, marine protected areas and other features". It is hoped that the initiative can help to reduce "global overfishing, illegal fishing and habitat destruction".[2]

The technology was made publicly available at the Our Oceans Conference in Washington, D.C. The project was partly financed by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Google Launches Global Fishing Watch—Digital Trends (September 16, 2016)
  2. ↑ Oceana Unveils Global Fishing Watch—Huffington Post (September 15, 2016)
  3. ↑ Illegal fishing targeted by crowdsourcing thanks to new Global Fishing Watch website—ABC News (Australia) (September 15, 2016)
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