Illegal Angling Mapped

Some line-fishing fleets are managing to illegally flout international as well as national line-fishing quota regulations past times transferring fish at body of body of water to large 'reefers', large commercial vessels which have as well as freeze the fish earlier transporting them to other destinations. In this agency the line-fishing ships are able to avoid detection of their over-fishing past times local line-fishing authorities.

ODI has used information from FishSpektrum to map the suspicious movements of 35 reefers inward western African waters inward 2013. Western Africa's Missing Fish uses CartoDB's Torque library to animate the tracks of these 35 commercial vessels.

Each of these animated maps is accompanied past times a brief 'Tracking History', which explains the reefer's activeness as well as why this is idea to live on suspicious. Details close where the ship is registered, its type as well as its carrying capacity is every bit good provided.