Thousands of fishing boats around the world will be monitored by Google in order to combat illegal fishing that undermines economic development, and encourages environmental crisis.
Presented the prototype at the World Parks Congress in Sydney, Global Project Fishing Watch was developed by a group of activists and SkyTruth Oceana and has supported financially and Google engineering.
The Global Fishing Watch is a prototype of a technology that will monitor online and almost in direct fishing boats that are at work at sea, on a global basis .
This tool will provide governments, non-governmental organizations and the general public all the information necessary for them to be able to detect and, if necessary, intervene in cases of illegal fishing.
The investment required to proceed with the project varies between 3 and 5 million dollars and will count with the aid of satellites and existing sensing devices on a mandatory basis in large fishing boats.
The project was developed by the Google Earth Outreach program in conjunction with engineering teams from SkyTruth and through the facilities of analyzes of data from Google was allowed to analyze the huge amount of information and to view the entire maritime territory which is developed in fishing .
Illegal fishing is rampant degradation of the global stocks of fish which puts the planet under serious economic and environmental threats. The Oceana estimates that in 2013, global losses caused by illegal fishing prowled between 10 billion and 23 billion.
At this time, the Global Fishing Watch only transmits the fishing activity 2012 and 2013 but the aim is to incorporate the latest possible, almost directly, so the data that the authorities can intervene quickly and more effectively
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