The Shark Tracking Map

You tin post away instantly explore the movements of 45 sharks off the due east coast of America on Oceana's interactive Global Fishing Watch map. Millions of sharks are caught as well as killed every yr past times line-fishing boats. By overlaying the shark tracks on direct house of the Global Fishing Watch map users tin post away persuasion where these sharks accept intersected amongst nearby commercial line-fishing vessels.

Global Fishing Watch aims to attention monitor global line-fishing as well as protect fish stocks roughly the basis which are threatened past times over-fishing, illegal line-fishing as well as habitat destruction. The Global Fishing Watch interactive map tracks over 35,000 commercial line-fishing vessels roughly the basis inwards nigh real-time. It too includes historical information on line-fishing vessel activeness from Jan 1, 2012 until the acquaint day. The nigh real-time activeness as well as the historical information volition hopefully deter illegal line-fishing as well as let line-fishing managers to empathise as well as contend line-fishing activeness inwards their waters.

The newly added shark tracks tin post away endure viewed past times turning on the 'Shark Tracking' layer inwards the 'Active Layers' menu. The shark tracks are shown inwards xanthous on the interactive map. If you lot click on i of the xanthous tracks on the map you lot tin post away acquire to a greater extent than almost the selected private shark beingness tracked. This information includes the species of shark, its gender activity as well as its length.