Spatial

Predicting fishing footprint of trawlers from environmental and fleet data: an application of artificial neural networks

The increasing use of tracking devices, such as the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) and the Automatic Identification System (AIS), have allowed, in the last decade, detailed spatial and temporal analyses of fishing footprints and of their effects on …

Assessing the fishing footprint using data integrated from different tracking devices: Issues and opportunities

Different tracking devices are currently used to record the activity of fishing vessels in space and time and to analyse the pattern of fishing effort with respect to sea substrates, resources, or socio-economics factors. Among these devices, the …