Monitoring hack shines a light on fishing boats operating under cover of dark

Mongabay
May 17, 2019, 10:01 pm394 pts
JAKARTA — Many of the fishing vessels operating in Indonesia’s waters at night do so undetected, masking what could be illegal fishing on a massive scale, according to a new study. Nearly 94 percent of nocturnal lit marine activities in Indonesia don’t use the vessel monitoring system (VMS), which tracks…

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