2018
Tracking the global footprint of fisheries
Abstract: Although fishing is one of the most widespread activities by which humans harvest natural resources, its global footprint is poorly understood and has never been directly quantified. We processed 22 billion automatic identification system messages and tracked >70,000 industrial fishing vessels from 2012 to 2016, creating a global dynamic footprint of fishing effort with spatial and temporal resolution two to three orders of magnitude higher than for previous data sets. Our data show that industrial fishing occ…
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“…While we cannot directly measure boat captains' expectations about a possible future closure, this surge in preemptive fishing within PIPA relative to the control region occurred presumably because fishing vessels anticipated the eventual arrival of the marine reserve before its implementation. Third, fishing in PIPA falls to nearly zero after the marine reserve is established, consistent with previous literature (11,12), but fishing in the control region is little affected. This again confirms the validity of our control area.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 88%
“…While we cannot directly measure boat captains' expectations about a possible future closure, this surge in preemptive fishing within PIPA relative to the control region occurred presumably because fishing vessels anticipated the eventual arrival of the marine reserve before its implementation. Third, fishing in PIPA falls to nearly zero after the marine reserve is established, consistent with previous literature (11,12), but fishing in the control region is little affected. This again confirms the validity of our control area.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 88%
“…Monthly maps of both fishing and observation coverage are included in the Supplementary Material (Supplementary Figures 1-3, 7, 8, 11, 12). In line with the conclusions of Kroodsma et al (2018), we observed less seasonal fluctuation than expected. The relative seasonal consistency, especially in shallower water, was an unexpected finding that requires further vessel-by-vessel analysis to investigate the consistency of individual potential observation platforms.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
“…Using Global Fishing Watch data, we estimate that 60% of the global seamount population experienced fishing activity in the period 2014–2018. This aligns with previous work using the Global Fishing Watch AIS dataset (2012–2016) that examined global fishing activity, which found 55% of the ocean was exploited by fisheries (Kroodsma et al, 2018).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 90%
