Ships Spend Hundreds of Thousands of Hours a Year Trawling in Europe’s Marine Protected Areas
When you picture a marine protected area, you might think of a diverse ecosystem where fish, sharks and corals thrive in a healthy, protected habitat. You probably don’t imagine industrial fishing operations scraping the depths of the ocean with large trawling nets. But using data from Global Fishing Watch and the World Database of Protected Areas, we […]
Fishing the Line: Capturing Resources that Swim Across Boundaries
By Emily Cassidy, Amelia Snyder, and Kristine Lister from Resource Watch, and David Kroodsma, Global Fishing Watch More than one billion people depend on fisheries and aquaculture as a primary source of protein. In many low-income countries, they also rely on fishing for income. While countries mostly fish within their own jurisdictions, according to data […]
