You can see how shark’s natural hunting patterns often cross with the routes of fishing boats, which results in hundreds of millions of dead sharks a year. The sharks get around: One series of dots ...

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 ...

The fishing industry has long been hard to monitor. Its global footprint is difficult even to visualize. Much fishing takes place unobserved, far from land, and once the boats move on, they leave ...

Researchers poring through billions of ship-tracking data points have found that industrial fishing vessels operated across more than 55 percent of ocean, or over 200 million square kilometers (77 ...

Google is lending its big data analytics technology to another environmental research project, this time it's one meant to support the push for more sustainable commercial fishing initiatives. The ...

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