Source: Civil Eats Author: Danielle Beurteaux New science can track transhipping, the high-seas transfer of seafood catches between ships, but it may take consumer demand to truly halt it.
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20 Jul
2017
2017
Technology
18 Jul
2017
2017
Source: OceanMind Author: Nick Wise Machine learning is helping OceanMind revolutionise the function of its fisheries analysts thanks to some significant growth in technical capability. Encompassing a highly sophisticated system that performs in-depth computational analysis, OceanMind can automatically analyse maritime information from a wide variety of sources.
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18 Jul
2017
2017
Source: UPI.com Author: Paul Tullis Hundreds of thousands of fishing vessels. Millions of square miles of ocean. Billions of radio transmissions. The constant stream of data can overwhelm even the most dedicated fisheries managers trying to combat the $23 billion illegal fishing industry.
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22 Feb
2017
2017
Source & Author: Oceana USA Bali, Indonesia – Oceana today released a report exposing the global scale of transshipping at sea, a practice that can mask illegal fishing practices and conceal human rights abuses.
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22 Feb
2017
2017
Source: Global Fishing Watch Author: Kimbra Cutlip It’s been just over five months since Global Fishing Watch launched publicly, and this week, we hope to make another splash by not just mapping global fishing activity, but by providing an unprecedented view of very specific activity by a very specific class of vessels around the world.
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15 Feb
2017
2017
Source: Natural Security Forum Authors: Mary Utermohlen and Phil Kittock Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing has emerged as a significant threat to global economic stability and security, causing an estimated USD$10–23 billion in economic losses each year.
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31 Jan
2017
2017
Source: CitizenSci Author: Adam Reyer Hundreds of millions of people depend on the ocean for their livelihoods, and almost 3 billion rely on it as a protein source. But countless threats — overfishing, destructive fishing practices, bycatch, dishonest catch reporting, habitat destruction — threaten our oceans and the people who depend on them.
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26 Jan
2017
2017
Source: WWF Author: Eszter Hidas Since 2013, WWF and its partners* have been highlighting the urgent need for the establishment of an electronic system to facilitate the detection and blocking of imports of illegally caught seafood products into the EU, under the EU’s Regulation to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing [i].
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25 Jan
2017
2017
Source: WWF Author: Victoria Mundy In a Communication to the European Parliament and Council dated 1 October 2015[1], the European Commission committed to modernising the catch certificate (CC) scheme established under the EU’s 2010 Regulation on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing[2]. The CC scheme requires all imports of seafood products into the EU to be […]
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7 Dec
2016
2016
Source: Ship Technology Author: Eva Grey The international community is desperately trying to crack down on illegal fishing and is increasingly harnessing the power of big data to achieve this. Given the valuable insight that can be gained from a ship’s location and activities at sea, could the world’s shipping fleets act as floating data […]
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