Global Fishing Watch
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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." It is hoped that the initiative can help to reduce "global overfishing, illegal fishing and habitat destruction."
The technology was made publicly available at the 2016 US State Department's ''Our Oceans Conference'' in Washington, DC. The project was partly financed by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and the Bertarelli Foundation. 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. Provided by Wikipedia