Source & Author: Francisco Blaha In September I wrote about the public beta version of Global Fishing Watch (GFW) that is available to anyone with an Internet connection and allows users to monitor when and where commercial “apparent fishing activity” is occurring around the world.
Read MoreSource: Pasifik Author: Island Business/PACNEWS The Pacific Islands’ fight against illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing has gone up another notch with the successful completion of a five-day training in Fiji of fisheries officers of 10 island nations.
Read MoreSource: The Guardian Author: Mary Catherine O’Connor Facial recognition software is most commonly known as a tool to help police identify a suspected criminal by using machine learning algorithms to analyze his or her face against a database of thousands or millions of other faces. The larger the database, with a greater variety of facial features, the […]
Read MoreSource & Author: FIS The non-government organisation The Nature Conservancy calls for data scientists to join a technology challenge intended to transform Pacific tuna fisheries and ensure a sustainable seafood supply for generations.
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource Author: Cliff White Technological advancements in satellite and cellular technology are being brought to bear in the international fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, enabling greater levels of surveillance and policing in the vast – and previously mostly lawless – open ocean.
Read MoreSource: Business Insider UK Author: Gus Lubin The island nation of Kiribati suspected that Marshalls 203 had violated its recently created no-fishing zone, but it didn’t have sufficient proof. That’s where Global Fishing Watch came in.
Read MoreSource: Enasia Author: Emma Bryce Early in December 2012, a South Korean vessel called the Premier entered the Indian Ocean to fish. In West Africa, authorities knew that the boat had been fishing illegally in Liberian waters before it made its way to Africa’s other coast. That raised the ire of East African countries, which […]
Read MoreSource & Author: Oceana Oceana, SkyTruth and Google today launched the public Beta of Global Fishing Watch, a new online technology platform that allows anyone in the world free access to monitor and track the activities of the world’s largest commercial fishing vessels in near real-time.
Read MoreSource & Author: NOAA Fisheries NOAA Fisheries published a final rule establishing regulations to integrate the collection of trade documentation within the International Trade Data System, and requiring electronic information through a single automated portal. The effective date for implementation is September 20, 2016.
Read MoreSource & Author: WWF NGOs urge significant improvements to EU system to prevent illegal fish imports from entering the market Detailed recommendations for how the European Union (EU) can eliminate existing weaknesses in its system to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing were published today by WWF and partner NGOs*.
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