Google-Co-founded Global Fishing Watch Advances Ocean Sustainability: Hundreds of Thousands of Vessels Monitored for Environmental Impact

By: Janhavi Ghanekar & Rahul Somvanshi

The international community needs to catch up in its attempts to safeguard and sustainably utilize the ocean and its marine resources.

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Global Fishing Watch is devoted to bringing governments from all over the world into our transparency initiative to enhance responsible fisheries management.

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GFW is a free web platform that visualizes and analyzes vessel-based human activities at sea.

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Monitoring, control, and surveillance measures are classified into three categories: before, during, and after a fishing activity.

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It analyzes data gathered from vessels and relayed via satellite and terrestrial transmitters.

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Global Fishing Watch and Dona Bertarelli collaborated to create GFW Marine Manager, an open-source technology platform that improves understanding of marine protected zones.

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By making this data accessible, we can usher in a new era of ocean governance fueled by international cooperation.

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According to the United Nations, human activities have profoundly affected two-thirds of the marine environment, particularly in fisheries, where one-third of the world's important commercial fish species are excessively fished.

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Global Fishing Watch collaborates with renowned scientific institutions to provide new open-source datasets and studies to better understand the most pressing issues confronting our ocean.

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