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About 75 per cent of the world's industrial fishing vessels are not publicly tracked, and much of that fishing happens around Africa and South Asia, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. Researchers have created a global map of large vessel traffic and offshore infrastructure and found a "remarkable" amount of activity previously "dark" to public monitoring systems, using machine learning and satellite imagery. The researchers, led by an international non-profit organisation Global Fishing Watch, Washington, US, also found that more than 25 per cent of transport and energy vessel activity also was missing from public tracking systems. The findings help shed light on the breadth and intensity of human industrial activity at sea, which they said has been changing. "The footprint of the Anthropocene is no longer limited to terra firma," said co-author Patrick Halpin, a professor of marine geospatial ecology at Duke University, UK. The researchers found that while

Updated On: 04 Jan 2024 | 5:54 PM IST

The new snake was found in the Otishi National Park (ONP) of the Avireri-Vraem Biosphere Reserve in Peru, South America

Updated On: 18 Aug 2023 | 10:49 AM IST

The rush of visitors is unbearable to many visitors themselves, not to speak of the wild animals

Updated On: 04 Mar 2016 | 11:29 PM IST