Wednesday February 25, 2026
ABC7 —
The biggest challenge with studying the world’s fish population is simple: fish live underwater.
You can’t easily easily spot them from land or even from space with satellites so getting a sense for where they are when, where they are going, and how many of them are left is really hard.
But one non-profit, Global Fishing Watch, is now trying a cutting-edge technique that they hope will help better track the movements of the world’s fish population: they are tracking the world’s fishermen.