Madrid-based FishSpektrum runs Krakken, the world’s largest fishing and fish carrier vessel UVI identifier & tracking database resource that provides comprehensive characterisations of over 750.000 fishing vessels (100% updated-coverage of the global industrial fishing fleet) from around the world, with more than 120 specific information items per vessel.
The FishSpektrum Project (FSK) is a multidisciplinary "big-data" project focused on improving knowledge on global fisheries activity and historical footprint that combines the identification of vessels and their fishing capacities as well as their targeted fishing grounds.
FSK therefore becomes a very efficient tool in order to ascertain real fishing effort as well as allowing almost real-time monitoring of target fishing activities. It allows among other items, the following:
1 Straightforward analysis of cumulative presence of fishing fleets in the global seas per 1-natural-year periods (2009 to 2017)
2 Straightforward analysis of cumulative presence of fishing fleets in the global seas per 1-natural-year periods (2009 to 2017)
3 Data disaggregated by fishing gear type and aggregated by continent of flag.
4 Geostatistical techniques to be applied to try to identify areas subject to particular fishing intensity (global fishing hot spots); Try identifying fisheries based on publicly available data
6 Results to be discussed in light of known fleet / AIS availability gaps per year, to identify and rule out any artifactual trends / patterns
7 Focus on robust qualitative trends / patterns
8 Compare to Anticamara et al 2011, Walters et al 2013 & other Searound & FAO products, etc. For fishing effort and catch
9 Also, second focus on tracks of all reefer / carrying vessels registered to transport fish: first ever globally georeferenced assessment of trade pathways physically linking major fisheries with their markets.