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Founder of Global Fishing Watch, sci-fi lover, python developer, arduino hobbyist globalfishingwatch.org
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We are #NowHiring a Video Producer 🎬 The role will cover all of EJF’s campaigns to gather the evidence and visual materials that underpin and support our campaigns and advocacy work. Find out more and apply here: ejfoundation.org/jobs/video-p...

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🚨 Final call: applications for Global Fishing Watch’s Open Ocean Research Grants close June 17 (end of day, anywhere in the world). Up to $20,000 for research into ocean transparency + governance. 🌐 Open globally — see priority geographies: 🔗 bit.ly/open-ocean-r...

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Today at #UNOC3 , Global Fishing Watch partner @donabertarelli.bsky.social delivered a powerful call to rethink our relationship with the ocean, from one of extraction to one of reciprocity and regeneration. We thank her for the ongoing support in our mission to unveil human activities at sea.

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@skytruth.org any chance we can see other trends like this based on long time series analysis of SAR-detected oil slicks?

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

We spent a couple of hours watching a pair of beaver in a pond on the grounds of the Himalayan Institute in north eastern PA, apparently involved in a grueling grudge match with the grounds keepers over the appropriate height for the dam that blocks the outlet to their pond.

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🚢 75% of industrial fishing vessels aren’t publicly tracked. In this @pbs.org film, @globalfishwatchceo.bsky.social joins voices from Brazil and @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social on how transparency can reshape ocean governance. 🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPU3... #OceanTransparency

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The unseen link between trawling and fish farming: New paper finds roughly 40% of fish feed inputs reported as ‘byproduct’ actually come from wild-captured seafloor-dwelling species. 🌎🦑🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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GFW needs your help! We have too much data and not enough researchers to investigate all the possibilities. So today we're piloting a new research grant program to encourage researchers to do novel things with our data. Find out more here buff.ly/MDL4xLE #OceanScience #Fisheries #ResearchFunding

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Hooray! We now have an official company BlueSky account for Global Fishing Watch! #globalfishingwatch

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China Launches First of 2,800 Satellites For AI Space Computing Constellation https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/15/2326249/china-launches-first-of-2800-satellites-for-ai-space-computing-constellation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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#ICYMI Open Ownership is hiring a short-term, part-time technical and legal consultant to provide country-specific legal expertise on the laws relevant to #BeneficialOwnership #transparency. Deadline: 12 May 2025 More: www.openownership.org/en/about/job... #NGOJobs #NonProfitJobs @unjobs.org

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An estimated 75% of industrial fishing vessels do not appear in public monitoring systems. They are ghosts drifting in the vast data void of the ocean. #GlobalFishingWatch #OceanTransparency #IUUfishing #SustainableFisheries #OurOcean #OpenData #BlueEconomy youtu.be/YPU3CEz-mHw?...

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Nice piece by Ian Urbina of Outlaw Ocean on the challenges posed by proposed seabed mining for minerals needed for clean energy transition. Nothing is simple it seems... buff.ly/suym5nB

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The morels are back! Yum! Thanks to our lackadaisical gardening practices, we get these yummy treats coming up every other year in our front garden. I think maybe they like the roots of our redbud tree. #mushrooms

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New paper on ocean noise contributors in southern resident killer whale habitat in British Columbia and Washington State. Using our AIS data plus SAR detects to estimate the population of un-tracked vessels. Ro-ro ferries have the largest impact. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Knowing who truly owns fishing operations helps support fisheries governance and sustainability. #BeneficialOwnership #transparency is part of the solution. Read more in Open Ownership and @unodc.bsky.social's new brief: ▶️ bit.ly/oo-unodc-fisheries #UnitedAgainstCorruption #fisheries

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

@skollworldforum.bsky.social searching for a positive way forward following the collapse of Foreign Aid in the US. #skollwf @skollworldforum.bsky.social

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Global Fishing Watch joined forces with UC Santa Barbara’s Environmental Markets Lab (emLab) and @climatetrace.org to conduct a first-ever study to map and estimate the emissions of all large industrial vessels operating at sea, accounting for 3% of global fossil fuel emissions. buff.ly/M2E2tAW

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Just got a preview of Deep Sea Mining Watch, a project we are doing with Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at UCSB. Using our map tools to look at the activity of minerals exploration vessels instead of fishing vessels. You can overlay the planned mining lease blocks with the historic fishing.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

🌍 Spotlighted by @nytimes.com, TNC's Global Renewables Watch provides unmatched insights into the renewable energy shift. It showcases current solar and wind capacities globally and highlights growth opportunities in every nation.

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

Does anyone know how to convert Fishing Plotter Files to GPX or some other standard geospatial data format? I want to pull some data on undersea cables from here: kis-orca.org/downloads/. I am looking at our bottom trawling model to see where predicted bottom trawling intersects the cables

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

I am seeing this more and more - the problem of conflicting industrial activites in the ocean. This paper looks a the UK as a case study on the friction between offshore wind development and existing fishing activity.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

submitted 98 days ago • 24 comments

Talking to a new startup based on Norway that is trying to bootstrap a maritime community based surveillance network. They are crowdsourcing the navigation radar data from participating vessels. I would LOVE to be able to add a data source like this to our GFW map! www.kahu.earth/about-us

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment