New Delhi, (PTI) About 75 per cent of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are not publicly tracked, and much of that fishing happens around Africa and South Asia, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.
Researchers have created a global map of large vessel traffic and offshore infrastructure and found a “remarkable” amount of activity previously “dark” to public monitoring systems, using machine learning and satellite imagery.
The researchers, led by an international non-profit organisation Global Fishing Watch, Washington, US, also found that more than 25 per cent of transport and energy vessel activity also was missing from public tracking systems.
