Illicit fishing goes on every day at an industrial scale. But large commercial fishers are about to get a new set of overseers: conservationists—and soon the general public—armed with space ...

The platform uses data from the automatic identification system (AIS) on ships to broadcast the location of fishing boats on a map like the one shown below. You can think of AIS as the global ...

SkyTruth, Oceana, and Google have just announced the release of a prototype interactive map that is designed to show all of the trackable fishing activity in the ocean. Global Fishing Watch uses ...

so that we can really create this interactive map platform that shows all types of marine wildlife and how they’re interacting with fishing vessels,” Malarky says. The final deadline for Fast ...

It's no secret that one of America's favorite pastimes is fishing. For some, it's a leisure activity; for others, it's a way of life. The United States is home to some of the most productive ...

Rebecca Selden, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Wellesley, is creating a "spatial sea map" designed to illustrate the adaptive styles of 266 fishing communities stretching across ...