''Global Fishing Watch'' is a website launched in September 2016 by Google in partnership with Oceana and SkyTruth "to provide the world’s first global view of

commercial fishing Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often ...

activities." At any moment, 200,000 vessels are publicizing their locations via the Automatic Identification System (AIS). Global Fishing Watch enables users with Internet access to monitor fishing activity globally, and to view "individual vessel tracks, exclusive economic zones, marine protected areas, and other features." It is hoped that the initiative can help to reduce "global

overfishing Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish (i.e. fishing) from a body of water at a rate greater than that the species can replenish its population naturally (i.e. the overexploitation of the fishery's existing fish stock), resulting in th ...

illegal fishing Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) is an issue around the world. Fishing industry observers believe IUU occurs in most fisheries, and accounts for up to 30% of total catches in some important fisheries. Illegal fishing takes pl ...

and

habitat destruction Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its native species. The organisms that previously inhabited the site are displaced or dead, thereby ...

." The technology was made publicly available at the 2016 US State Department's ''Our Oceans Conference'' in Washington, DC. The project was partly financed by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.Illegal fishing targeted by crowdsourcing thanks to new Global Fishing Watch website
�� ''ABC News'' (Australia) (September 15, 2016)

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Global Fishing Watch
2016 in the environment Environmental impact of fishing American environmental websites Fishing and the environment Internet properties established in 2016 Environmental monitoring Fisheries databases

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