Global Fishing Watch

It started by a website launched in September 2016 by Google in partnership with Oceana and SkyTruth "to provide the world’s first global view of commercial fishing activities."

[1] Global Fishing Watch enables users with Internet access to monitor fishing activity globally, and to view "individual vessel tracks, exclusive economic zones, marine protected areas, and other features.

"[2] It is hoped that the initiative can help to reduce "global overfishing, illegal fishing and habitat destruction.

"[3] The technology was made publicly available at the 2016 US State Department's Our Oceans Conference in Washington, DC.

[5] In June 2017, almost a year after being officially launched at the Our Ocean Conference, Global Fishing Watch was established as an independent, international nonprofit organization.