$9.0M in expenses

Global fishing watch is an international nonprofit organization founded on the belief that information about the ocean, our global commons, should be common knowledge. Our purpose is to create and publicly share knowledge about human activity at sea to enable sustainable use of our ocean. We create knowledge using cutting-edge technology to turn big data into actionable information. We share that information publicly to accelerate science and drive fairer, smarter policies and practices that reward good behavior and protect biodiversity and livelihoods. And we promote international cooperation and transparency around ocean data to enable a new era of ocean governance.by 2030, across 30 countries, we aim to empower institutions and people to: - reduce illegal, unregulated and unreported (iuu) fishing and destructive fishing practices- better enforce and protect the rights of 1 million small-scale fishers- improve effective designation and management of marine protected areas (mpas) and other effective area-based conservation measures (oecms). Our tools and technology remain at the cutting edge, as evidenced by our securing us $60m from the audacious project, along with other significant new funding, to continue revolutionizing ocean management and power our ambitious goal of revealing all human activity at sea.transparency at sea: we made our data and technology more accessible to everyone through our api portal and delivered the marine manager portal globally, enabling any site, manager, or NGO to explore biological, oceanographic, and human activity data.

$3.5M in expenses

Ocean monitoring: we continue to provide information on vessels transmitting ais and streamline the process of getting information on those vessels' movements and events in a simple web portal. Our platform now includes fixed infrastructure like wind and oil detected from sentinel-1 satellite constellation synthetic aperture radar (sar), allowing users to see vessel interactions. We have also included new biodiversity and environmental layers taken from google earth engine, copernicus and noaa to improve the understanding of interaction with fishing.

$4.1M in expenses

Research: by the end of 2024, our research team helped publish 12 more papers,and the total number of citations for global fishing watch research to 6129 across 67 research publications.more information about global fishing watch's ongoing programs can be found at WWW.globalfishignwatch.org.