Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
allochthonous@scicomm.xyz ("Chris Rowan") wrote:
What you see when combining satellite radar and machine learning to track the vessels that don't have or switch off their tracking boxes.
- 75% of the industrial fishing vessels, and 30% of transport and energy vessels not publicly tracked.
- by 2021 wind turbines made up almost 50% of ocean infrastructure, although there has also been an increase in new oil platforms (which have far more ship traffic).