Illegal fishing off West Africa doesn't respect borders, but enforcement is only building capacity nation by nation, letting fleets simply relocate when one country cracks down. Cross-border cooperation is needed but with sustained investment

Illegal fishing off West Africa doesn't respect borders, but enforcement is only building capacity nation by nation, letting fleets simply relocate when one country cracks down. Cross-border cooperation is needed but with sustained investment
The High Seas Treaty is signed, but success depends on rich nations funding capacity-building and technology transfer they've promised
And this comes at a time when the rich nations are withdrawing funding and assistance to help rest of the world
Stanford University (@stanford.edu) is hiring:
Postdoctoral Scholar in Ocean Governance and Marine Resources
How can vessel-tracking data and AI support more adaptive fisheries governance?
The study combines high-frequency BeiDou vessel-tracking data with a CNN-BiLSTM deep learning model to examine fishing activity in the East China Sea.
#Fisheries #MarinePolicy #OceanGovernance #AI #EastChinaSea
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