Global Fishing Watch

Global Fishing Watch (gfw) has enjoyed a very rewarding year, a year where the world began to emerge from the pandemic. The Global conservation community sought to put the health of the ocean and the resources it produces back on the international agenda. Transparency is in the spotlight; our technology, tools, and collaborative insights are in demand.our tools and technology remain at the cutting edge. Interest and demand for gfw's map and services accelerated in 2022, and we are working to make the most of the opportunities that drive us toward success in our mission.transparency at sea: we made our data and technology more accessible to everyone through our api portal and delivered the marine manager portal at a Global scale, enabling any site, manager or ngo to explore biological, oceanographic, and human activity data. Beyond our technology offering, we also secured transparency partnerships with 4 new countries.

Research: our research team published 5 new research papers this year, bringing our total to 46 - we also passed the 3,000 citations mark for all of our papers. Finally we continued to grow our formal research network, with 2 new institutions added in 2022.more information about Global Fishing Watch's on-going programs can be found at www.globalfishignwatch.org.

Ocean monitoring: we revealed more human activity at sea by publishing data on dark vessels, identifying those that had intentionally disabled their automatic identification system (ais), using new data from the sentinel-1 satellite constellation synthetic aperture radar (sar) and the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite (viirs) sensor, and improving vessel identication.