September 27, 2022 — Eighteen insurers have pledge to use a new tool capable of tracking vessels involved in illegal fishing.
Launched at a marine underwriters conference recently in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., Vessel Viewer is a product of the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance, established during the United Nations’ 2019 climate action summit with backing from the financial services sector.
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June 22, 2021 — A newly launched map of the locations of fishing vessels involved in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing has one big problem: there’s not much to show.
The new tool, the IUU Vessel Tracker, was launched Wednesday, 16 June, by non-governmental organization Oceana. It uses Global Fishing Watch tracking data cross-indexed with a list of vessels linked to IUU compiled by regional fishery management organizations and Norway-based nonprofit Trygg Mat Tracking. But Oceana said the tool, which allows anyone in the world to track the activities of these vessels in near real-time, is currently tracking just two of 168 vessels on the list. The two vessels visible, the Phoenix and the Nadhodka, are flagged to the Seychelles and Russia, respectively.