Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two large fishing boats at sea. Earth-observing satellites have helped detect previously unmapped global fishing vessels, ...

Researchers using artificial intelligence algorithms to identify vessels in satellite images of the oceans have concluded that the majority of the world’s industrial fishing boats are not being ...

Three-quarters of the world’s large fishing boats and a quarter of transport and energy ships are “dark vessels” that do not publicly share their location. The finding comes from an analysis of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The global fishing fleet has more than doubled from about 1.7 million boats harvesting fish in 1950 to 3.7 million fishing vessels in 2015. More ...

We’ve written before how the best tools to fight overfishing at sea may be found in the skies — but this past Wednesday, proof-of-concept came in the form of a satellite-tracked map of all the ...