About Global Fishing Watch
Sustainability through transparency in global fishing activity
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Founded
- 2017
- Company type
- Nonprofit
Global Fishing Watch is an international non-profit organization committed to advancing the sustainability of our oceans through increased transparency. By harnessing cutting-edge technology, our mapping platform provides a powerful tool for ocean governance, empowering anyone to view or download data and investigate global fishing activity in near real-time, for free.
Global Fishing Watch was founded in 2015 through a collaboration between Oceana, SkyTruth and Google. Our research, data and technology partners are central to achieving our mission to accelerate innovation and deliver actionable insights to increase transparency in commercial fishing and the sustainable management of our oceans.
Specialties
- ocean conservation
- maritime security
- transparency
- data science
- machine learning
- big data
- research
- fisheries monitoring
- fishing vessel tracking
- illegal fishing
- marine protected areas
- maritime domain awareness
- and monitoring
- control and surveillance
Company locations
1025 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20036, US
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Business areas
- Information Technology
- Civic, Welfare & Social Services
- Non-profit and NGO
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- Followers
- 29,272
- People linked to this company
- 157
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Funding raised
62,955,834 USD
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