• Catalogue PIGMA
  •  
  •  
  •  

2021 Static Dataset: Apparent Fishing Effort

Global Fishing Watch is working across the globe to provide governments and authorities with actionable reports and capacity building to help strengthen fisheries monitoring and compliance. Our global team of experts produce analyses to inform monitoring, control and surveillance of fisheries in five key areas:

- Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

- Transshipment

- Port controls

- Marine protected areas

- Operation support

Collaboration and information sharing are integral to achieving well-managed fisheries. By working with stakeholders and making analyses available to national, regional and intergovernmental partners, Global Fishing Watch is enabling fisheries agencies to make more informed and cost-efficient decisions.

Topics:

- Commercial fishing, Global Fishing Watch is harnessing innovative technology to turn transparent data into actionable information and drive tangible change in the way that fisheries are governed.

- Transshipment, Through publicly sharing map visualisations and creating data and analysis tools, we seek to inform management and policy efforts and provide a more complete picture of transshipment at sea.

- Marine protected areas, Global Fishing Watch is harnessing the data and technology revolution to support the effective design, management and monitoring of marine protected areas.

Simple

Date (Publication)
2021-01-01
Date (Creation)
2016-01-01
Identifier
bc8a006f-0f17-407c-bd44-31effc9a7fb0
Credit
Global Fishing Watch
Point of contact
  GFW - Research and data inquiries
Point of contact
  GFW Support
Thèmes Sextant
  • /Human Activities/Industrial Fishing
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Production and industrial facilities
Mission Atlantic - Case Studies
  • South Brazilian Shelf
  • Canary Current system
  • South Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  • Atlantic Ocean
Mission Atlantic - Work Package
  • WP4 Benthic Mapping
  • WP6 Dynamics of ecosystem state and resources
  • WP3 Pelagic Mapping
  • WP5 Assessing state, drivers and tipping points
Mission Atlantic - Data type (DMP)
  • Socio-economic data
Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters
  • /Human activities/Transport
  • /Human activities/Fisheries
Mission Atlantic - Resources
  • Data
  • Program and project
Ocean Hackathon - City and challenge
  • /International and global data portals
Use limitation
CC-BY-NC (Creative Commons - Attribution, No commercial usage)
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Metadata language
English
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Oceans
N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Unique resource identifier
EPSG:4326
Distribution format
  • CSV ( )

OnLine resource
Datasets and Code: Apparent Fishing Effort ( WWW:LINK )
OnLine resource
GFW Portal ( WWW:LINK )
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Statement

AIS is a GPS-like device that large ships use to broadcast their position in order to avoid collisions. Each year, more than 400,000 AIS devices broadcast vessel location along with other information on vessel identity, course and speed. Ground stations and satellites pick up this information, meaning a ship’s movements can be followed even in the most remote parts of the ocean.

Every day we receive raw AIS data from our partner at Spire. These data are first run through a series of our algorithms designed to filter out corrupt or incomplete records and assign additional information to each AIS message, such as the distance from shore, depth and time since the vessel’s previous AIS position. At this point, the AIS data is ready to be used by our machine learning models.

File identifier
bc8a006f-0f17-407c-bd44-31effc9a7fb0 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-15T23:56:08.439275Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115-3 - SEXTANT
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  Ifremer - Sextant
ZI Pointe du Diable , Plouzane , Brittany , 29280 , France
https://sextant.ifremer.fr/eng
 
 

Overviews

overview

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Production and industrial facilities
Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters
/Human activities/Fisheries /Human activities/Transport
Mission Atlantic - Case Studies
Atlantic Ocean Canary Current system South Brazilian Shelf South Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Mission Atlantic - Data type (DMP)
Socio-economic data
Mission Atlantic - Resources
Data Program and project
Mission Atlantic - Work Package
WP3 Pelagic Mapping WP4 Benthic Mapping WP5 Assessing state, drivers and tipping points WP6 Dynamics of ecosystem state and resources
Thèmes Sextant
/Human Activities/Industrial Fishing

Provided by

logo
Access to the portal
Read here the full details and access to the data.

Associated resources

Not available


  •  
  •  
  •