03 Dec 2024
The UK’s Royal Navy Maritime Domain Awareness Programme (MDAP) and Global Fishing Watch have signed an agreement to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUUF). The UK Government, Global Fishing Watch and the Joint Analytical Cell (JAC) already work closely together to tackle IUUF through an innovative pilot project in the Philippines funded by the […]
24 Feb 2019
New technologies have the potential to represent, and indeed define, the lasting legacy of the Blue Belt Programme. If implemented effectively, with sufficient consideration given as to their application in the context of the fisheries enforcement issues the Overseas Territories seek to address, then new technologies could represent a real ‘game-changer’. On 16 January 2019, […]
26 Feb 2018
Guardian More than half the world’s oceans are being fished by industrial vessels, new research reveals. The maps based on feedback from more than 70,000 vessels show commercial fishing covers a greater surface area than agriculture, and will raise fresh questions about the health of oceans and sustainability of trawler fishing. The data, published in […]