Global Fishing Watch
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Global Fishing Watch is an independent, international nonprofit organization. It started by a website launched in September 2016 by Google in partnership with
Automatic Identification System (AIS).[1]
Global Fishing Watch enables users with Internet access to monitor fishing activity globally, and to view "individual vessel tracks,
illegal fishing and habitat destruction."[3]
The technology was made publicly available at the 2016 US State Department's Our Oceans Conference in Washington, DC. The project was partly financed by the
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation[4] and the Bertarelli Foundation.[5] In June 2017, almost a year after being officially launched at the Our Ocean Conference, Global Fishing Watch was established as an independent, international nonprofit organization.[6]
See also
- Overfishing
- Fish migration
- Fish farming
- MarineTraffic, an open website providing information and tracking of shipping vessels at real-time
References
- ^ Google Launches Global Fishing Watch—Digital Trends (September 16, 2016)
- ^ Urbina, Ian (11 August 2020). "The deadly secret of China's invisible armada". NBC News.
- Huffington Post(September 15, 2016)
- ^ Illegal fishing targeted by crowdsourcing thanks to new Global Fishing Watch website—ABC News (Australia) (September 15, 2016)
- ^ "Global Fishing Watch Marine Manager". oceandecade.org. 3 June 2022.
- ^ "Global Fishing Watch About Us". globalfishingwatch.org. 27 March 2024.