Big Data to Check Illegal Fishing
Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
accounts for a significant amount of over fishing. Each year the global IUU
catch has been estimated to be 11–26 million tones that accounts between 7% and
17% of the total global catch. IUU is creating pressure on sustainability of production.
If IUU continues there is a risk for food security and livelihoods of millions
of people particularly living in coastal region. In such situation, big data application
for sustainable fisheries may be useful in solving IUU fishing and over fishing
in the open waters through locating vessel’s Automatic identification systems
(AIS) that broadcast data on their location and movements. New technologies
such as remote sensing and big data application can identify and control
several areas of environmental and natural resource management leading to
sustainability of renewable. Natural resources.
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