Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU), human rights abuses at sea and the collapse of ocean ecosystems are fundamentally intertwined. Fish populations have rapidly declined globally, with 35% of fish populations now overfished and 57% fished at the maximum sustainable level. More vessels are chasing fewer fish, and up to one in five fish are […]
New research has generated a comprehensive system for tracking and monitoring fishing vessels from the moment they disembark from the shipyard to their eventual dismantlement at a ship graveyard which can help determine possible instances of unlawful fishing. Published in Science Advances, the new study fuses a decade’s worth of satellite vessel tracking data […]