KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 (Bernama) -- Global Fishing Watch has announced three pioneering collaborations with Greece, Panama and the West African Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC) in a bid to harness technology and data-driven solutions for enhanced transparency, improved fisheries management and greater ocean sustainability.
Unveiled at the Ninth Our Ocean Conference held in Athens, Greece, the partnerships will leverage open data to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, promote sustainable fisheries management and enable marine protection via deepened engagement with governmental bodies spanning three continents.
In addition, they will provide Global Fishing Watch the opportunity to highlight transparency as a critical marine management tool and advance policy reforms regarding the adoption of vessel tracking methods like automatic identification systems (AIS) and vessel monitoring systems (VMS), as well as regional data sharing practices.
Global Fishing Watch chief executive officer, Tony Long said the announcements marked a milestone in its collaborative efforts to mobilise open data and technology in the fight against illegal fishing and toward improved global fisheries management.
“More importantly, our expanding network of partnerships shows that governments and multilateral institutions are increasingly recognising the role Global Fishing Watch can play in achieving better and more transparent ocean governance,” he added in a statement.
Presented at an official conference side event co-hosted by Greece, the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation and Global Fishing Watch, the partnership with Greece commits authorities to utilising Global Fishing Watch’s platform, which provides visualisations and analysis of fishing activity, for critical support in bolstering the country’s marine protection efforts.
In addition, the Our Ocean Conference also welcomed a new partnership between Global Fishing Watch and the seven West African SRFC Member States.
Via the new three-year agreement with SRFC, Global Fishing Watch will support Member States with analysis and generated insights to inform targeted monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) actions, bolstering countries’ abilities to manage activity in their waters and safeguard livelihoods and regional economic and environmental ecosystems.
Furthermore, Global Fishing Watch’s activity on the margins of the Our Ocean Conference also saw the renewal of an ongoing collaboration with the Government of Panama, first launched in 2019, aimed at building an improved, collaborative framework for data-sharing and policy development.
-- BERNAMA
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