Industrial Fishing Industry Covers More Than Half the World's Oceans, Study Finds

Industrial Fishing Industry Covers More Than Half the World's Oceans, Study Finds

Using satellite data recently made public, conservationists may be able to manage the massive industry.

Satellites Show that Strictly Protected Marine Areas Exclude Industrial Fishing

A team including UC Santa Barbara researchers shows that artificial intelligence methods applied to satellite data provide a powerful new way to assess industrial fishing activity in marine protected areas.

Industrial fishing sneaking into marine protected areas

Whitetip reef sharks, Pacific creolefish, barberfish, and Moorish idols populate a reef in the Revillagigedo Archipelago. Credit: Enric Sala, National Geographic Pristine Seas Researchers have used cutting-edge satellite technology to reveal that the most highly protected zones are deterring illegal fishing despite industrial fishing vessels continuing to sneak into marine protected areas (MPAs) worldwide. The findings of 2 new studies published…

Satellites Show That Strictly Protected Marine Areas Exclude Industrial Fishing

Researchers led by the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Jennifer Raynor showed that artificial intelligence methods applied to satellite data provide a powerful new way to assess industrial fishing activity in MPAs, bridging blind spots in current monitoring methods. The first-of-its-kind study, published in the journal Science, found that the world’s most strongly protected MPAs had little-to-no industrial fishing activity.