{"id":2656502,"date":"2025-01-28T09:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2656502"},"modified":"2025-01-28T10:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:11:06","slug":"global-fishing-watch-illuminating-vessel-activity","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/global-fishing-watch-illuminating-vessel-activity","title":{"rendered":"Global Fishing Watch \u2013 Illuminating Vessel Activity On the Open Ocean"},"author":8492,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[777982,777962,777942,777952,777972],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551,36561],"class_list":["post-2656502","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-777982","tag-annual","tag-fishing","tag-global-fishing-watch","tag-monthly","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"Having fish for dinner tonight? Ever wondered if anyone is monitoring where it's coming from?","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Fish serves as the major source of protein for over 3 billion people worldwide, requiring a global, industrial fishing effort that spans the farthest reaches of our oceans \u2013 while applying unrelenting pressure on global fish stocks, sovereign waters, and sensitive ecosystems. For the first time, we can now illuminate these vessels and put their activity on the map, answering the question, \u201cDo you know where your fish comes from?\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2660372,"id":2660372,"title":"GFWTour_1920x1080","filename":"GFWTour_1920x1080.gif","filesize":8933130,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWTour_1920x1080.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/global-fishing-watch-illuminating-vessel-activity\/gfwtour_1920x1080","alt":"Animated gif showing different fishing locations around Iceland, New Zealand, Mediterranean Sea, Northern Pacific, and off the coast of Peru and Ecuador.","author":"8492","description":"","caption":"Global fishing intensity shown around Iceland, New Zealand, Mediterranean Sea, Northern Pacific, and Peru.","name":"gfwtour_1920x1080","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2656502,"date":"2025-01-25 01:27:52","modified":"2025-01-28 00:43:54","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWTour_1920x1080-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWTour_1920x1080.gif","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWTour_1920x1080.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWTour_1920x1080.gif","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWTour_1920x1080-1536x864.gif","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWTour_1920x1080.gif","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWTour_1920x1080-826x465.gif","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWTour_1920x1080.gif","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWTour_1920x1080.gif"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Fishing intensity around the globe<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

Esri is excited to announce the addition of global fishing intensity layers to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0These new 1-kilometer resolution multidimensional datasets are the product of Global Fishing Watch<\/a>, an independent, international nonprofit organization whose purpose is to <\/span>provide<\/span> a <\/span><\/em><\/span>global real-time view of fishing<\/span><\/span><\/em> \u2013 making human activity at sea publicly accessible.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s<\/span> a short summary<\/span> of what these new layers include:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Global Fishing Intensity (Year 2020)<\/span><\/a> provides a global summary of vessel activity in the world\u2019s oceans, detected from AIS tracking data, and is represented as total hours <\/i><\/span>per 1km cell for the year 2020. This snapshot includes two multidimensional variables: <\/span>vessel hours<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>fishing hours<\/span><\/i>. Vessel hours include any fishing vessel activity within that cell, including transit to\/from port, while fishing<\/em> hours<\/em> shows <\/span>only<\/span><\/i> apparent fishing activity, as detected by Global Fishing Watch.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Use the swipe map below to explore <\/span>vessel hours <\/span><\/i>(left) and <\/span>fishing hours <\/span><\/i>(right)\u00a0variables in southern Africa:<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"storymap","title":"","description":"","static":false,"storymap_url":"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/instant\/media\/index.html?appid=bad37d21bbb2477fa66df7fae325ad89<\/a>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

 <\/p>\n

Global Fishing Intensity – Monthly Time Series (Year 2020)<\/span><\/a> provides a more granular look at fishing intensity, with monthly summaries for 2020. Same as the yearly service, both <\/span>vessel hours<\/span><\/i> and fishing <\/em><\/span>hours <\/span><\/i>variables are available for visualization and analysis in ArcGIS Pro or Online.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The animation below shows the change in monthly fishing intensity in the shallow waters around the island nation of Iceland, the highest per-capita consumer of fish in the world:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2659412,"id":2659412,"title":"Iceland Monthly Blog Animation no Annual at End","filename":"Iceland-Monthly-Blog-Animation-no-Annual-at-End.gif","filesize":3264495,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Iceland-Monthly-Blog-Animation-no-Annual-at-End.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/global-fishing-watch-illuminating-vessel-activity\/iceland-monthly-blog-animation-no-annual-at-end","alt":"Animated gif showing monthly fishing activity around Iceland.","author":"8492","description":"","caption":"Monthly fishing activity around Iceland in 2020.","name":"iceland-monthly-blog-animation-no-annual-at-end","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2656502,"date":"2025-01-24 01:10:39","modified":"2025-01-28 00:20:08","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Iceland-Monthly-Blog-Animation-no-Annual-at-End-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Iceland-Monthly-Blog-Animation-no-Annual-at-End.gif","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Iceland-Monthly-Blog-Animation-no-Annual-at-End.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Iceland-Monthly-Blog-Animation-no-Annual-at-End.gif","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Iceland-Monthly-Blog-Animation-no-Annual-at-End-1536x864.gif","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Iceland-Monthly-Blog-Animation-no-Annual-at-End.gif","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Iceland-Monthly-Blog-Animation-no-Annual-at-End-826x465.gif","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Iceland-Monthly-Blog-Animation-no-Annual-at-End.gif","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Iceland-Monthly-Blog-Animation-no-Annual-at-End.gif"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

What can you do with these layers?<\/span><\/h2>\n

A lot. Simply exploring global patterns of fishing intensity prompts questions about why certain waters are heavily fished \u2013 while others aren\u2019t. Combining fishing intensity with other Living Atlas layers, like bathymetry, marine protected areas, or sovereign boundaries can begin to answer these questions, highlighting sharp changes in fishing activity in time, space, and <\/span>depth<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For a deeper dive into how the Global Fishing Watch fishing intensity layers were created, and how they can be used for monitoring and protecting the world\u2019s oceans, visit the <\/span>Global Fishing Watch: Illuminating vessel activity on the open ocean<\/span><\/a> StoryMap.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2661792,"id":2661792,"title":"GFWIntroStoryMap","filename":"GFWIntroStoryMap.png","filesize":744544,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWIntroStoryMap.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/global-fishing-watch-illuminating-vessel-activity\/gfwintrostorymap","alt":"StoryMap introduction slide to Global Fishing Watch - Illuminating vessel activity on the open ocean.","author":"8492","description":"","caption":"Explore the StoryMap for a deep dive into global fishing activity.","name":"gfwintrostorymap","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2656502,"date":"2025-01-28 01:40:16","modified":"2025-01-28 01:47:38","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2104,"height":1117,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWIntroStoryMap-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWIntroStoryMap.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":246,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWIntroStoryMap.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":408,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWIntroStoryMap.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1019,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWIntroStoryMap-1536x815.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":815,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWIntroStoryMap-2048x1087.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1087,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWIntroStoryMap-826x439.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":439,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFWIntroStoryMap-1920x1019.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1019}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/76f8ff21253c427e81e33808918da379"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

For example, equal-area hexbin summaries can be used in combination with the monthly fishing intensity service to determine regions where there is fishing activity 1, 2, 3, or all 12 months of the year:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2656852,"id":2656852,"title":"GFW_SummarizingActivity4","filename":"GFW_SummarizingActivity4.png","filesize":3924941,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_SummarizingActivity4.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/global-fishing-watch-illuminating-vessel-activity\/gfw_summarizingactivity4","alt":"Hexbin map showing fishing intensity summarized by the number of months per year the area is fished.","author":"8492","description":"","caption":"These hexbins show fishing intensity by summarizing the number of months per year the area is fished.","name":"gfw_summarizingactivity4","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2656502,"date":"2025-01-22 22:26:37","modified":"2025-01-28 00:56:02","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2461,"height":1187,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_SummarizingActivity4-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_SummarizingActivity4.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":224,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_SummarizingActivity4.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":370,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_SummarizingActivity4.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":926,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_SummarizingActivity4-1536x741.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":741,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_SummarizingActivity4-2048x988.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":988,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_SummarizingActivity4-826x398.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":398,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_SummarizingActivity4-1920x926.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":926}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_SummarizingActivity4.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Sovereign offshore boundaries \u2013 known as Exclusive Economic Zones, or EEZs, in combination with the World Database of Protected Areas and NOAA\u2019s Marine Protected Areas do much of the explaining for why fishing activity is so heavily concentrated in <\/span>seemingly random<\/span> \u201c<\/span>wedges<\/span>\u201d<\/span> of open ocean. They can also be helpful for monitoring possible illegal fishing activity in our most sensitive \u201cno-take\u201d marine sanctuaries.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2656862,"id":2656862,"title":"GFW_FishingRind2","filename":"GFW_FishingRind2.png","filesize":6487892,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_FishingRind2.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/global-fishing-watch-illuminating-vessel-activity\/gfw_fishingrind2","alt":"Map showing vessel hours, Exclusive Economic Zones, and the World Database of Protected Areas.","author":"8492","description":"","caption":"Map showing Vessel Hours, Exclusive Economic Zones, and the World Database of Protected Areas. Notice the dramatic \"wedges\" showing high levels of fishing in the unregulated open ocean.","name":"gfw_fishingrind2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2656502,"date":"2025-01-22 22:26:55","modified":"2025-01-28 00:57:12","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2468,"height":1193,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_FishingRind2-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_FishingRind2.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":224,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_FishingRind2.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":371,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_FishingRind2.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":928,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_FishingRind2-1536x742.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":742,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_FishingRind2-2048x990.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":990,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_FishingRind2-826x399.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":399,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_FishingRind2-1920x928.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":928}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GFW_FishingRind2.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Want to go deeper? Combine Global Fishing Watch layers with AIS vessel track lines from the Living Atlas <\/span>U.S. Vessel Traffic App<\/span><\/a> to get details about individual fishing vessels, and track their journeys to and from U.S. ports of call. Check out the <\/span>StoryMap<\/span><\/a> for more!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re excited to add these new ocean resources to the Living Atlas for use by the fishing, ocean conservation and GIS communities. Additional questions or feedback? Feel free to contact the\u00a0<\/span>Environment\u00a0<\/span><\/a>team, we\u2019d love to hear from you!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":10472,"user_firstname":"Craig","user_lastname":"McCabe","nickname":"Craig McCabe","user_nicename":"cmccabe","display_name":"Craig McCabe","user_email":"CMcCabe@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2020-01-24 21:48:27","user_description":"Craig is a GIS Engineer, geologist, and geographer on the ArcGIS Living Atlas Environment team at Esri, with a passion for 3D visualization, analysis, and telling stories with data.","user_avatar":""},{"ID":8492,"user_firstname":"Emily","user_lastname":"Meriam","nickname":"Emily Meriam","user_nicename":"emeriam","display_name":"Emily Meriam","user_email":"EMeriam@esri.com","user_url":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/meriamaps\/","user_registered":"2018-10-26 16:33:49","user_description":"Emily Meriam has a diverse GIS background that spans more than two decades. Her portfolio includes mapping elephants in Thailand, wildlife poachers in the Republic of Palau, land-use issues around Yosemite National Park, and active wildfire incidents for the State of California. Since 2018, Emily has been with Esri's ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. In this role she serves as lead Cartographer and Senior GIS Engineer for the Environment Team where she styles and designs layers, maps, and applications for the global GIS community. 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