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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Global
Fishing Watch<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://globalfishingwatch.org/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Global
Fishing Watch is the product of a technology partnership between SkyTruth,
Oceana, and Google that is designed to show all of the trackable fishing
activity in the ocean. This interactive web tool – currently in prototype
stage – is being built to enable anyone to visualize the global fishing
fleet in space and time. Global Fishing Watch will reveal the intensity of
fishing effort around the world, one of the stressors contributing to the
precipitous decline of our fisheries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>With
hundreds of millions of people around the world depending on our ocean for
their livelihoods, and many more relying on the ocean for food, ensuring the
long-term sustainability of our ocean is a critical global priority. We need a
tool that harnesses the power of citizen engagement to hold our leaders
accountable for maintaining an abundant ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Global
Fishing Watch will be available to the public, enabling anyone with an internet
connection to monitor when and where commercial fishing is happening around the
globe. Citizens can use the tool to see for themselves whether their fisheries
are being effectively managed. Seafood suppliers can keep tabs on the boats
they buy fish from. Media and the public can act as watchdogs to improve the
sustainable management of global fisheries. Fisherman can show that they are
obeying the law and doing their part. Researchers will have access to a
multi-year record of all trackable fishing activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>The
tool uses a global feed of vessel locations extracted from Automatic
Identification System (AIS) tracking data collected by satellite, revealing the
movement of vessels over time. The system automatically classifies the observed
patterns of movement as either “fishing” or
“non-fishing” activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>This
version of the Global Fishing Watch started with 3.7 billion data points, more
than a terabyte of data from two years of satellite collection, covering the
movements of 111,374 vessels during 2012 and 2013. We ran a behavioral
classification model that we developed across this data set to identify when
and where fishing behavior occurred. The prototype visualization contains 300
million AIS data points covering over 25,000 unique vessels. For the initial
fishing activity map, the data is limited to 35 million detections from 3,125
vessels that we were able to independently verify were fishing vessels. Global
Fishing Watch then displays fishing effort in terms of the number of hours each
vessel spent engaged in fishing behavior, and puts it all on a map that anyone
with a web browser will be able to explore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Watch
this video to learn more about the map, and see Global Fishing Watch in
action...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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