Global Fishing Watch – Illuminating Vessel Activity On the Open Ocean
Esri is excited to announce the addition of global fishing intensity layers to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. These new 1-kilometer resolution multidimensional datasets are the product of Global Fishing Watch, an independent, international nonprofit organization whose purpose is to provide a global real-time view of fishing – making human activity at sea publicly accessible. Visit this blog for a quick summary of the new available layers.
Global Fishing Intensity (Year 2020) provides a global summary of vessel activity in the world’s oceans, detected from AIS tracking data, and is represented as total hours per 1km cell for the year 2020.
Global Fishing Intensity – Monthly Time Series (Year 2020) provides a more granular look at fishing intensity, with monthly summaries for 2020.
For a deeper dive into how the Global Fishing Watch fishing intensity layers were created, and how they can be used for monitoring and protecting the world’s oceans, visit the Global Fishing Watch: Illuminating vessel activity on the open ocean StoryMap.
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