You tin straightaway explore the movements of 45 sharks off the eastward coast of America on Oceana's interactive Global Fishing Watch map. Millions of sharks are caught too killed every yr yesteryear angling boats. By overlaying the shark tracks on transcend of the Global Fishing Watch map users tin sentiment where these sharks bring intersected amongst nearby commercial angling vessels.
Global Fishing Watch aims to tending monitor global angling too protect fish stocks unopen to the Blue Planet which are threatened yesteryear over-fishing, illegal angling too habitat destruction. The Global Fishing Watch interactive map tracks over 35,000 commercial angling vessels unopen to the Blue Planet inwards nigh real-time. It too includes historical information on angling vessel activeness from Jan 1, 2012 until the introduce day. The nigh real-time activeness too the historical information volition hopefully deter illegal angling too permit angling managers to empathize too contend angling activeness inwards their waters.
The newly added shark tracks tin hold out viewed yesteryear turning on the 'Shark Tracking' layer inwards the 'Active Layers' menu. The shark tracks are shown inwards yellowish on the interactive map. If y'all click on i of the yellowish tracks on the map y'all tin larn to a greater extent than nigh the selected private shark existence tracked. This information includes the species of shark, its sexual practice too its length.
