How can UAVs help us protect our oceans from illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing?

OceanMind has been working alongside the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada with enforcement authorities in Costa Rica and Senegal, and UAV organisations Marble and Aeromao on a project to test this new way of providing extended monitoring, control, and surveillance support.

To date, we have conducted over 40 successful test flights in both nations and are continuing to explore how this technology can be used around the world to empower enforcement and compliance to protect the world’s oceans.

Find out more about our work in this short film produced in Costa Rica

Emma Seal, Fisheries Analyst at OceanMind, works with the Costa Rican coastguard to monitor the UAV flight data