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Where does Global Fishing Watch get the data from?
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Is the information I’m seeing in the Global Fishing Watch map real-time?
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How can I obtain Global Fishing Watch data or code?
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Can I download raw AIS data?
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Can I download raw VMS data?
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Will this tip off the fishing industry to where all the fish are?
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Does the Global Fishing Watch map include small scale fishing?
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Why are vessel names sometimes garbled or blank?
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What are the different vessel classes used by Global Fishing Watch?
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What is the difference between the apparent fishing effort layer and the fishing events in the vessel track?
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When I see a grid cell with fishing effort that crosses an EEZ, does it mean there was fishing activity inside the EEZ?
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Why do some MMSI’s downloadable fishing effort data add up to more than 24 hours?
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