SkyTruth, Oceana and Google announced Global Fishing Watch, a big data technology platform that leverages satellite data to create the first global view of commercial fishing. A prototype was unveiled at the 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia, with a public release version in development, SkyTruth said. Read the rest here 12:42
NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?
While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here
This will only work if the vessels have an AIS system onboard, & if they are transmitting their information. I don’t think that a vessel that is involved with Illegal, Unreported, & Unregulated fishing (IUU), is about to voluntarily transmit a signal that will basically be the equivalent to an ankle bracelet similar to that worn by convicted criminals.
Monitoring the vessels that are legally fishing by other non-governmental entities, & any interested parties, smacks of invasion of privacy. It is just a larger more technical version of our next civil problem, invasion of privacy by today’s camera equipped privately owned & operated octo-quad drones.
Once again, ENGO Oceana has found a way to put forward another money making scheme, at the detriment to the
commercial fishing industry, this time by bringing in the huge resources of Google into one of their messes.
Jim Kendall – NBSC
Lets face the google fact, Jim, they already spy on the citizenry and even forward information to the NSA.
Oceana, the data manipulation specialists that always add a twist when sensationalizing any fishery issue, has created a mountain out of a mole hill, and now with the alliance of a tech group and Google are justifying what anyone would reject if the eye in the sky were pointed at themselves.
Hell we may as well grab a “piece” of the Pie 2. How bout a Ted Danson bad Hair Day APP???