Global Fishing Watch Uses AI to Reveal That Up to 75% of Large Fishing Vessels Avoid Being Tracked

Way back in 2015, we posted – Can Big Data Stop Overfishing? Will Google’s Global Fishing Watch Succeed? The post described a new project in which Google partnered with SkyTruth and Oceana to produce a tool to track global fishing … Continue reading

Update: Fighting Fishing Piracy with Satellites and in Ports

Overfishing is a huge problem in the world’s oceans. Exacerbating the problem is fishing piracy. A year ago, we posted “Can Big Data Stop Overfishing? Will Google’s Global Fishing Watch Succeed?”  The post described how Oceana, SkyTruth and Google were launching … Continue reading

Can Big Data Stop Overfishing? Will Google’s Global Fishing Watch Succeed?

Overfishing of the world’s oceans is a huge and immediate problem. Back in 2002, the nations participating in the World Summit on Sustainable Development agreed to end overfishing by 2015. Suffice it say, it didn’t happen.  Indeed, some scientists are predicting … Continue reading