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The Ocean Is Visible Now, What Happens Next Is Up to Us
The ocean is no longer invisible. Satellites can now track fishing vessels across the planet in near real time. So if we can see the exploitation, what happens next?
In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean, we break down how satellite monitoring, AIS tracking, radar systems, and machine learning have fundamentally changed ocean enforcement. Industrial fishing now covers more than half of the ocean's surface. Some vessels turn off their tracking systems near marine protected areas. Others cluster just outside boundaries in a practice known as "fishing the line." But here is the shift…
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