Governments can identify and take action against vessels that are not authorized to fish in their waters or are fishing illegally in protected areas.The map supports the understanding, visualization and analysis of global commercial fishing activity by various stakeholders. Free and easy-to-use features offer unprecedented opportunities to increase transparency across the world’s ocean and support the fair and sustainable use of marine resources. The map also allows anyone to upload and overlay their own data, download reports of activity from custom areas, and save and share workspaces. Users can search for vessels, filter activity by flag State or time period, identify port visits and view encounters between vessels. Powered by satellite technology and machine learning, the map merges multiple types of vessel tracking data to provide a view of global human activity at sea, including fishing activity, encounters between vessels, night light vessel detection and vessel presence.Īnyone with an internet connection can access the map to monitor global fishing activity from 2012 to the present for about 70,000 commercial fishing vessels that are responsible for a significant part of global seafood catch. The Global Fishing Watch map is the first open-access online platform for visualization and analysis of vessel-based human activity at sea.
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