Tracking Global Fishing
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel interactive map from Oceana, SkyTruth in addition to Google allows anyone to rails the activities of line-fishing vessels across the the world inwards real-time. Global Fishing Watch aims to assistance monitor global line-fishing in addition to protect fish stocks unopen to the the world which are threatened past times over-fishing, illegal line-fishing in addition to habitat destruction.
The Global Fishing Watch Google Map tracks over 35,000 commercial line-fishing vessels unopen to the the world inwards nigh real-time. It besides includes historical information on line-fishing vessel action from Jan 1, 2012 until the acquaint day. The nigh real-time action in addition to the historical information volition hopefully deter illegal line-fishing in addition to permit line-fishing managers to empathise in addition to contend line-fishing action inwards their waters.
Global Fishing Watch uses the Automatic Identification System (AIS), the tracking organization used on ships to set vessels in addition to to rails their position, course, in addition to speed.
Some commercial line-fishing fleets are managing to illegally flout international in addition to national line-fishing quota regulations past times transferring fish at ocean to large 'reefers', large commercial vessels which have in addition to 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 inwards western African waters inwards 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 action in addition to why this is idea to locomote suspicious. Details nigh where the ship is registered, its type in addition to its carrying capacity is besides provided.