03 Jun 2025

Image: Fishing boat at the harbour – Paul Einerhand   A new report claims that the marine insurance industry is enabling illegal and environmentally destructive behaviour in the fishing sector by insuring vessels that deliberately disable their tracking systems — a practice known as “going dark.” In 2023, Blue Marine investigators revealed how industrial fishing […]

08 Jun 2021

Hundreds of fishing fleets that go ‘dark’ are suspected of illegal fishing.  In a global case study of possible AIS avoidance, vessels primarily from China switch off their tracking beacons to evade detection while they engage in possible illegal fishing.  Click here and here.