Month: January 2024

By the time the fishermen of Corner Inlet start to haul in their nets, the gulls and terns have arrived to supervise the catch.     As the nets contract, the vast array of marine life supported by this bay, near the southern-most tip of mainland Australia, is slowly revealed — stingrays, sharks, sardines, crabs and…

Gone fishing? Depending on the lake, your catch may not be safe to eat.  A group of chemicals collectively known as PFAS are found in hundreds of consumer goods, including dental floss, rain jackets and nonstick cookware. Over decades, these chemicals have spewed from manufacturing plants and landfills into local ecosystems, polluting surface water and…

Fishing industry bosses claim turtles are being "killed and turfed overboard" and the ocean floor "stripped of all sorts of creatures" by illegal foreign fishers in waters off Western Australia's Kimberley coast.Key points:The Border Force operation has been labelled a "quick fix"Industry bosses are concerned illegal foreign fishers could be killing turtles, sharks and demersal…

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Technology An AI analysis of satellite images reveals fishing, shipping and offshore development activities worldwide by monitoring boats that don't publicly broadcast their location By Jeremy Hsu The majority of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are not publicly trackedThree-quarters of the world’s large fishing boats and a quarter of transport and energy ships are “dark…

Satellite imagery and machine learning offer a new, far more detailed look at the maritime industry, specifically the number and activities of fishing and transport ships at sea. Turns out there are way more of them than publicly available data would suggest, a fact that policymakers should heed. As a shared global resource, the oceans…

The Great Lakes — known for ice fishing and frozen winter waves — rang in the New Year almost naked. Ice covered less than 0.4% of the Great Lakes on New Year's Day, according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, which uses satellite data to measure ice concentrations. “It’s basically nothing,” said James Kessler, a physical…

Researchers can now access artificial intelligence analysis of global satellite imagery archives for an unprecedented look at humanity’s impact and relationship to our oceans. Led by Global Fishing Watch, a Google-backed nonprofit focused on monitoring maritime industries, the open source project is detailed in a study published January 3 in Nature. It showcases never-before-mapped industrial…

Illegal fishing with agrochemicals and explosives across several of Ecuador’s Amazonian states is an uncontrolled problem, causing long-lasting, irreversible damage to aquatic ecosystems, recent research has shown.The study links high levels of poverty to the wider practice of unsustainable fishing, and calls for tighter controls on the sale and availability of agrochemicals and dynamite across…

The Canoe and Fishing Gear Owners Association of Ghana (CaFGOAG), an affiliate of the National Union of Teamsters and General Workers (NUTEG of GFL), a trade union organization, has deployed life jackets to artisanal fishers as part of an effort to promote safety at sea in Ghana’s artisanal fisheries. So far, some fishers in Shama,…