Global Fishing Watch is promoting ocean sustainability through greater transparency. We use cutting-edge technology to visualize, track, and share data about global fishing activity in near real-time and for free. Gridded fishing activity data vessel identity and classification lists encounter between refrigerated cargo vessels and fishing vessels, future data products: ports, AIS On/Off events, gridded VMS Observe fishing vessels at sea could see the tracks of about 60,000 commercial fishing vessels at sea in near real-time along with their name and flag state. Data shows all activity from 1 January 2012 until 72 hours ago.