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Yes. Or don't have them. If you believe this map nobody fishes on either coast of Thailand or Peninsular Malaysia at all. Not true! Probably the map heavily sk

Yes. Or don't have them. If you believe this map nobody fishes on either coast of Thailand or Peninsular Malaysia at all. Not true! Probably the map heavily skews to showing only points from large vessels in international waters and most vessels in well regulated / developed countries' waters.

jabl 9y ago
The map is mostly based on AIS data; AIS transponders are only required on vessels larger than 100 tons, thus excluding smaller coastal fishing vessels. EDIT According to wikipedia, I'm wrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_identification_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_identification_syste... ). The international limit (IMO SOLAS) is apparently 300 gross tons, though local jurisdictions can have stricter requirements, e.g. it mentions that the EU requires all fishing vessels longer than 16m to be equipped. EDIT2 wikipedia is wrong, the EU limit for fishing vessels is 15m as of 2014-05-31 (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32009R1224&from=EN http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...).
- glup 9y ago
  I was just going to look for this information, thanks!