Study aims to unmask fishing vessels, and owners, obscured by loopholes

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 … Continue reading Study aims to unmask fishing vessels, and owners, obscured by loopholes