Widespread untracked fishing is hindering global efforts to protect depleted fish stocks and marine environments, according to a study that maps undisclosed activities at sea for the first time.
About 75 per cent of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are not publicly tracked, according to research by conservation organisation Global Fishing Watch (GFW), threatening food security, livelihoods and marine ecosystems.
While the footprint of land-based extractive industries such as agriculture is plotted almost down to the last square metre, oceans were “still the wild west”, said David Kroodsma, one of the study’s lead authors and GFW’s director of research and innovation.
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