Reducing IUU Fishing

When fish get to market, illegally caught fish look exactly the same as legitimate catch making it difficult to identify once it enters the supply chain

A more efficient way to stop illegal fishing is to catch perpetrators in the act, at sea

Our system can help you do that, and provide the evidential trail through to prosecution

Our system can help detect illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing based on the analysis of AIS, space-based radar, and optical imagery from our Earth Observation satellites

Individual vessels can be monitored to help identify suspicious behavour and anomolies in normal fishing patterns

Vessel tracking can also alert you to the transfer of illegal catch at sea when several vessels raft together or rendezvous with a reefer ship

The transfer of catch at sea sometimes involves local fishing vessels buying illegal fish before heading back to port

Our local vessel register helps you to monitor your local fleet too

Our small vessel port clearance system can help you identify foreign fishing vessels that arrive in one of your ports

While it may have legitimate reasons to visit, such as refuelling, it may also be engaged in offloading illegal catch

A port call by a foreign fishing vessel may not be suspicious on its own, but complemented with prior tracking and vessel ownership details it may help uncover illicit activity

The only way to uncover this sort of illicit activity is to monitor all fishing vessels while at sea, and in port