New technology targets illegal fishing

New technology shines the spotlight on illegal fishing with developments that alert authorities on suspicious activity in the water.

The CSIRO are developing a world first notification system that identifies and ranks vessels across the globe based on a list of behaviours associated with illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing.

CSIRO senior scientist and co-designer of the platform Dr Chris Wilcox said the tool used data collected by satellites to monitor and report suspiciously behaving vessels.

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