Rogue fishing vessels are able to secure insurance including those that have been flagged by international watchdogs for unlawful activity, new research indicates. New research from the University of ...

Some ships already carry automatic identification systems (AIS) — devices that transmit publicly available data about the vessel’s identity, position, and course. But commercial fishing vessels are ...

The Defense Department is hoping that space-based synthetic aperture radar, or SAR, could help the United States and allies keep track of illegal fishing all over the globe. Later this month, the ...

A new report exposes the sophisticated networks propping up Chinese squid fleets accused of illegal fishing off South America. These activities—often carried out with Automatic Identification System ...

The heart of the Pacific Ocean is a vast, barely explored region outside national boundaries, teeming with undiscovered species and dramatic undersea terrain. A few organizations monitor activity here ...

Illegal and unreported fishing is a multibillion-dollar business around the globe, and one that has proven notoriously difficult to combat. In part, that’s because it involves a constant stream of ...

A wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) taking off for flight, carrying a GPS tracker that can detect radar emitted from ships. Courtesy of Henri Weimerskirch No creature knows the sea quite like the ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CN) — Since 2018, foreign vessels have spent close to 1 million hours fishing between Argentina’s maritime border and the high seas, yet spent 600,000 hours ‘in the dark,’ ...