A new study published in the scientific journal Nature today finds that roughly 75% of industrial fishing is currently undetectable by authorities. Researchers at Global Fishing Watch used high-tech radar data from the European Space Agency to observe all at-sea vessels during a five-year period from 2017 to 2021. This information was then compared to public vessel tracking data and researchers used a model to predict which vessels were fishing to identify the “dark fleet.”
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