Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, marine scientist Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing
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 […]
New research prepared for Oceana’s Transparent Oceans Initiative has, for the first time ever, used global data to analyze the links between illegal fishing and other maritime crimes like forced labor, drug trafficking, and money laundering, finding fishing-related crime is highly concentrated and sanctions are often inadequate. The team of researchers, led by Dr. Dyhia .
The shadowy world of fisheries crime is difficult to study; much of the action takes place far from land, without the knowledge of anyone but the perpetrators. New research shows that a small number of companies may be responsible for a large chunk of international fisheries crimes. It also shows that the vessels committing abuses, […]