Welcome to Global Fishing Watch’s Data and Open Source Code Website

This website is your portal for the datasets and code that power Global Fishing Watch, an NGO dedicated to creating transparency in the commercial fishing industry. Learn more at globalfishingwatch.org. Note that we have recently moved much of the content on this site to globalfishingwatch.org/datasets-and-code/. This .io provides some details not provided on the main site, includes links to GFW github repos, and includes snipets of example code to explore our data.

Datasets and Code

• Vessel Identity
• Fishing Activity
• Transshipment
• Anonymized AIS Data
• Anchorages
• Other Data
• Fishing Detection Models

Papers by Global Fishing Watch and Research Partners

• See globalfishingwatch.org/publications/ for a full list of publications.

Data Blog Posts

• Visit globalfishingwatch.org/category/data-blog/ to read recent blog posts about our data.