
Satellites can spot squid fishing boats from Wright
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Squid fishing is increasing rapidly in parts of the ocean, and with little or no oversight, squid populations are at risk of overfishing and collapse.
Fishing activity on the high seas is notoriously difficult to track, with thousands of vessels plying international and national jurisdictions as vast as the oceans. “It’s very rare to see the big picture,” says Catherine Seto of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
To get a more complete view, Seto and her colleagues…