Unveiling Fishing Activity Risk to Marine Megafauna with Geospatial Technologies

Whale sharks endangered by Chinese fishing vessels — Galapagos Islands

Image by the Author. “Sky” the whale shark trajectory overlaid with China’s fishing activity. Galapagos-Ecuador. Data from Global Fishing Watch (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Galapagos Whale Shark Project. Open this story!

Geospatial technologies have advanced rapidly in the last decade and the results are outstanding. Earth Observation data can reveal environmental and human activity in seconds and has been used in different cases…