Oceana Finds Hundreds of Vessels Vanishing Along Argentina’s Waters

Oceana Fisheries & Aquaculture

Oceana Finds Hundreds of Vessels Vanishing Along Argentina’s Waters
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As part of this analysis, Oceana documented more than 6,000 gap events, instances where AIS transmissions are not detected for more than 24 hours, which potentially indicates vessels are disabling their public tracking devices. These vessels were invisible for more than 600,000 total hours, hiding fishing vessel locations and masking potentially illegal behavior, such as crossing into Argentina’s national waters to fish. The Chinese fleet was responsible for 66% of these incidents.

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