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A web chat with Jackie Savitz of Oceana describes the amazing new Global Fishing Watch platform from Oceana, Skytruth, Google.

The initiative allows anyone to track tens of thousands of fishing vessels, nearly in real time, by monitoring transmissions from Automatic Identification Systems devices that nearly all vessels have as a safety and navigation feature.

Telltale patterns of ship movements can potentially reveal illegal fishing activity in protected waters, as has already happened.


Ships that have a pattern of turning off the devices can potentially become the focus of other investigations, so there's no easy way to get off the radar.

How it works: Scientists develop precise methods to identify and measure three very different types of fishing activity
http://blog.globalfishingwatch.org/20...

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